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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to secure habitats for the grey partridge.

Habitat improvement is a devolved matter. In England, agri-environment schemes such as Environmental Stewardship fund the provision of important habitats for farmland birds such as the grey partridge. In addition, grey partridges are among the farmland birds that will benefit from wild pollinator and farm wildlife package options under the Countryside Stewardship scheme, for example by providing winter feeding, nesting sites and food for chicks.

The grey partridge also benefits - as do other bird species - from England’s extensive network of protected sites for wildlife such as sites of special scientific interest and special protection areas.