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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to minimise habitat loss of the native UK robin population.

Robins are not of conservation concern and as such receive no targeted conservation action. However, Government actions to restore and create more than 500,000 hectares of wildlife-rich habitat by 2042 will support a wide range of native bird species, including robin. Additionally, biodiversity net gain, which requires most planning applications to deliver a 10% increase in biodiversity compared to what was there before, will also benefit our native species through the creation of new or enhanced habitats.