Select committee: Environmental Audit Committee
Recommendation 65
First Report - Biodiversity in the UK: bloom or bust?
Published 30 Jun 2021
Paragraph 316
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
We support the recommendation of the Public Accounts Committee that the Treasury’s next Comprehensive Spending Review should set out how the full value of environmental impacts has been taken into account, and the impact of spending decisions on meeting government’s long-term environmental goals. To achieve this, every department needs to account for the costs and benefits to nature when appraising projects and policies. We reiterate the recommendation of the 2017–19 Committee that general taxation and spending should not be exempt from the Environmental Principles.
From: Environmental Audit Committee, First Report - Biodiversity in the UK: bloom or bust? (HC 136), paragraph 316, 30 June 2021
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 30 September 2021 (deadline 30 August 2021).