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Biodiversity: British Overseas Territories

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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 23707, tabled on 14 January 2025

Question

Barry Gardiner
Labour
Brent West
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what percentage of his Department's total biodiversity budget was spent on supporting biodiversity in the UK Overseas Territories in 2024-05.

Answer

Mary Creagh
Labour
Coventry East
Commons

Answered on

17 January 2025

UK Government biodiversity spend is across multiple organisations and this funding contributes to other objectives, such as water quality, net zero and food security. As such it is not possible to provide an exact figure of total domestic expenditure on biodiversity.

For 2024-25, the department has committed to make available up to £10 million in direct support for biodiversity in the UK Overseas Territories. Future funding will be subject to the outcomes of spending review and business planning processes.

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