Environment Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 23 June 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment she has made of the resource capacity of local government biodiversity officers to participate in Local Nature Partnerships (LNPs); and what consultation her Department undertook with the Association of Local Government Ecologists on the creation of LNPs.
Local Nature Partnerships (LNPs) were requested by many of the organisations responding to the Natural Environment White Paper consultation. In the White Paper, we commit to encouraging and supporting LNPs where local areas wish to establish them. We have suggested that these may consist of people from local authorities, civil society organisations, land managers and people in the community, but we are not enforcing the concept or structure. It is for local areas to decide whether an LNP is the appropriate structure to protect and improve the natural environment local to them. In the course of developing the concept of LNPs and producing guidance for the next steps in establishing them, we consulted local authorities extensively, and visited several to discuss the idea.
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