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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to publish the response to his Department's consultation on environmental targets.

We received over 180,000 responses to the environmental target consultation from a range of individuals and organisations. The Government expects to publish its response when it finalises its environmental targets. We continue to progress environmental targets, particularly our biodiversity apex target to halt the decline in species abundance by 2030, which is required by the Environment Act 2021.