Source · Select Committees · Environmental Audit Committee
Recommendation 29
29
Rejected
Establish comprehensive, publicly accessible register of BNG assets, investors, and credit owners by February 2026.
Recommendation
We recommend that not later than 12 February 2026—the start of the next biodiversity net gain reporting year—the Government establish a comprehensive and publicly accessible register of: • the location of onsite and offsite assets being developed under statutory provision for biodiversity net gain; • the identity of investors in such assets, and • the identity of the owners of statutory biodiversity credits issued by Government. Such a register will provide improved transparency. (Recommendation, Paragraph 151)
Government Response Summary
The government states that a publicly available register for off-site BNG already exists but explicitly rejects the recommendation to establish a comprehensive, publicly accessible register including on-site assets, investor identities, and credit owners by 12 February 2026, stating they have no plans to develop an on-site register.
Government Response
Rejected
HM Government
Rejected
A publicly available register for off-site BNG exists and gives details of every registered gain site, the responsible body, and the size, location, and detail of the habitat being created. Some onsite data is publicly available, albeit not in a single easily navigable location. We do not currently have plans to develop an on-site register for BNG.