AQW 7358/22-27

Mr John Blair
Alliance Party
South Antrim

Tabled Date: 23/02/2024
Answered On Date: 08/03/2024
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs what progress has been made by his Department towards the publication of an updated Environment Strategy.

Answer:

In the next few weeks, I intend to bring forward for Executive consideration and agreement a new environment strategy which can be adopted as Northern Ireland’s first Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP). The EIP will take a strategic approach to all the issues facing our environment, which will require collective action across government, private and public sector and in the community.