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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the lifetimes of the (a) Marine Protected Areas and (b) Highly Protected Marine Areas programmes.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the lifetimes of the (a) Marine Protected Areas and (b) Highly Protected Marine Areas programmes.
Marine conservation is a devolved competence and the following information therefore relates to England only.
We view MPAs as permanent features of our conservation efforts at sea and the improvements we will see to marine biodiversity within each site would be lost if their protection was to be removed. We will keep them under review and make changes where new scientific evidence suggests it is needed.
On 8 June 2021, the Government published its response to the Benyon Review into Highly Protected Marine Areas (HPMAs). The Government accepted the central recommendation that we should take forward some pilot sites with the purpose of biodiversity recovery. The Government is developing criteria for HPMA identification to create a list of potential sites this year, followed by consultation and designations in 2022. We will evaluate the effects of pilot HPMAs on the ecosystem, social and economic factors and this evaluation will inform future HPMA work.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when his Department plans to publish the next Marine Protected Areas Network report.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when his Department plans to publish the next Marine Protected Areas Network report.
The Marine Protected Areas Network report is published every six years. The latest report was published in 2018 and the next will be published in 2024.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has to announce a further round of the Green Recovery Challenge Fund or similar funding stream for local biodiversity and nature projects.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has to announce a further round of the Green Recovery Challenge Fund or similar funding stream for local biodiversity and nature projects.
In November 2020, the Government announced that it would double the size of the Green Recovery Challenge Fund (GRCF) by making an additional £40 million investment. Round two of the GRCF opened for applications on 9 March. It will fund projects that restore nature, tackle climate change and connect people with the natural environment while creating and retaining jobs in the nature sector. We will review the effectiveness of projects in delivering against these aims before announcing any further rounds.
In addition, over the next five years, the Nature for Climate Fund will drive a step-change in tree planting and woodland creation in England. This will be critical to achieving the Government's UK manifesto target of planting 30,000ha of trees per year by 2025, as well as restoring peatland. Farmers and other land managers in protected landscapes have been allocated funding from the Future Farming and Countryside Programme.
The Government has also recently launched the Natural Environment Investment Readiness Fund. This will provide technical assistance grants of up to £100,000 to environmental groups, local authorities, businesses and other organisations to develop nature projects in England that can attract private sector investment.
What steps he is taking to prevent deforestation.
What steps he is taking to prevent deforestation.