Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 2 September 2025.
Lewis Cocking
Conservative, Broxbourne
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether swift bricks count towards biodiversity net gain.
Mary Creagh
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
No, expenditure on swift bricks cannot be counted towards biodiversity net gain (BNG) units which must be calculated using the main Statutory Biodiversity Net Gain metric or the small sites version of it.
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