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 21 February 2025 to Question 30440 on Housing: Construction, whether SANGS payments and other nature mitigation payments can be offset towards BNG payments.

We have published GOV.UK guidance on “what you can count towards a development’s biodiversity net gain”. This confirms that Suitable alternative natural green space can count in part, and also lists other schemes which can count either in full or in part towards biodiversity net gain.