Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations she has received from nature bodies about the introduction of a Nature and Well-Being Bill.

Defra receives representations from organisations on a wide range of environmental issues. These have included proposals for a Nature and Wellbeing Bill. The Government has set out its legislative programme for the remainder of this Parliament, which does not include proposals for such a Bill.