Source · Select Committees · Environmental Audit Committee
Recommendation 22
22
Not Addressed
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To deliver the Government’s environmental vision to improve the environment within a generation, arm’s length...
Conclusion
To deliver the Government’s environmental vision to improve the environment within a generation, arm’s length bodies and departments need to have the funding to do so. Budget cuts to biodiversity expenditure over the last decade have hindered this.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government's response outlines commitments to establishing a Nature Recovery Network and Local Nature Recovery Strategies, which will guide funding from schemes like the future farming programme, but it does not directly address the committee's conclusion regarding past budget cuts hindering environmental efforts or commit to increasing overall biodiversity expenditure.
Paragraph Reference:
120
Government Response
The government responded to this report on 30 September 2021. No passage in that response could be matched to this conclusion. Read the response document ↗