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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent progress she has made in achieving and implementing the Aichi biodiversity targets.

Progress towards implementing and achieving the Aichi Biodiversity Targets is set out in the UK’s 5^th National Report (www.cbd.int/doc/world/gb/gb-nr-05-en.pdf) to the Convention on Biological Diversity and in the 2015 report on the UK’s biodiversity indicators (http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-4229), published by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee.