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British Overseas Territories: Biodiversity

Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 32994, tabled on 7 July 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to help reduce the reliance on private funding and charities in the conservation of UK Overseas Territories' biodiversity.

Answered on

19 July 2022

The Government has funded several environmental projects to address and eradicate invasive species, including rats, in the UK Overseas Territories. Total spends for the last five years below:

2018-19

£413,293

2019-20

£1,005,775

2020-21

£444,763

2021-22

£520,138

2022-23

£562,867 (Approved funding for this financial year)

It is not possible to identify amounts by individual species.