Select committee: Environmental Audit Committee
Conclusion 24
First Report - Biodiversity in the UK: bloom or bust?
Published 30 Jun 2021
Paragraph 122
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Conclusion (the committee's words)
As the Public Accounts Committee has recently observed, there is no single point of responsibility within government for monitoring overall expenditure on environmental goals, and the Government does not have a good understanding of the total costs required to deliver its environmental goals. It is difficult to determine how much of the funding announced by Ministers for these goals has so far been spent, and thus whether the Government’s funding commitments will in fact be met.
From: Environmental Audit Committee, First Report - Biodiversity in the UK: bloom or bust? (HC 136), paragraph 122, 30 June 2021
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 30 September 2021 (deadline 30 August 2021).