Biodiversity

(asked on 6th June 2019) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which key performance indicators his Department uses to assess progress in improving the UK’s biodiversity.


Answered by
Thérèse Coffey Portrait
Thérèse Coffey
This question was answered on 14th June 2019

Domestic biodiversity policy is a devolved matter. The UK government has a range of performance indicators for England, although we do also work with the devolved administrations to compile indicators at UK scale for international reporting.

In June 2019 the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs published its Single Departmental Plan which includes biodiversity performance indicators for England, including: extent of marine protected areas and condition of protected sites and priority habitat.

In May of this year, the Government published a new indicator framework for the 25 Year Environment Plan, setting out a transparent, comprehensive framework that shows how the environment in England is changing and whether it is improving over time. These indicators include diversity and health of our seas, wildlife and wild places, and nature on land and water.

To support reporting of progress across the whole of the UK, the government publishes a set of UK Biodiversity Indicators, updated annually. These measure long term trends in the UK’s biodiversity and progress against our international commitments under the Convention on Biological Diversity.

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