Select committee: Environmental Audit Committee
Recommendation 20
First Report - Biodiversity in the UK: bloom or bust?
Published 30 Jun 2021
Paragraph 104
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
Healthy soils are essential to biodiversity; and yet the data and indicators to measure soil health do not exist to the degree required to ensure effective monitoring. Without credible arrangements for monitoring and measuring soil health, the Biodiversity in the UK: bloom or bust? 117 Government will not meet the soil health commitments made in its own 25 Year Environment Plan. The Government must therefore urgently address this large data gap.
From: Environmental Audit Committee, First Report - Biodiversity in the UK: bloom or bust? (HC 136), paragraph 104, 30 June 2021
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 30 September 2021 (deadline 30 August 2021).