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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 12 October 2026 to Question 30017 on Biodiversity, whether her Department undertook an impact assessment of the costs of making biodiversity net gain mandatory for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects; and what estimate it has made of those costs.

The Government published an impact assessment alongside the government response to the Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) consultation in April 2026. This sets out an assessment of all costs and benefits.