PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Biodiversity: Finance (13 November 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on funding for the 25 year plan on biodiversity; and what estimate she has made of the costs of implementing that plan.

Asked by:
Kerry McCarthy (Labour)

Defra is working closely with Treasury and others on the development of the 25 year Environment Plan. A high level framework for the Plan will be published early next year and the detailed content of the plan will be developed over the course of 2016, including an estimate of implementation costs.

Answered by:
Rory Stewart (Independent)
18 November 2015