Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to apply the interim findings of the Dasgupta review on the economics of biodiversity to decisions on economic policy and spending decisions being made in response to the covid-19 outbreak.

Protecting and enhancing the UK’s natural capital assets is essential to delivering on the government’s ambitious environmental agenda and ensuring a strong and sustainable economic recovery from the impacts of Covid-19. The government welcomes Professor Dasgupta’s interim report and looks forward to receiving and responding to the full report in due course.