questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Department's press release entitled UK backs communities on the ocean's front line with £13.9 million investment, published on 17 June 2026, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of biodiversity credit schemes in delivering measurable environmental improvements.
answerText: The UK uses Official Development Assistance (ODA) to help establish robust and transparent biodiversity credit schemes that can mobilise private finance while delivering measurable environmental and social outcomes. These outcomes include equitable benefi...
heading: Blue Planet Fund: Biodiversity