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Government Response Published 7 May 2025 ↗ View on Parliament

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. (Recommendat...

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) Type: recommendation | Number: 29 | Response status: not_accepted Government response: 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