Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 18 December 2025.
Lee Dillon
Liberal Democrat, Newbury
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance her Department has issued to businesses on how they can contribute to local habitat restoration projects.
Mary Creagh
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Defra has published biodiversity net gain (BNG) guidance on how a business can get involved with providing biodiversity units to developers who need to go off-site for BNG. This can either be through selling units independently on land owned, or working with partners to create habitat banks. Land managers can also combine biodiversity units with other environmental payments for the same piece of land.
In addition, Projects for Nature connects corporate donations with government-screened nature recovery projects across England, which can support the delivery of our statutory biodiversity targets.
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