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Railways: Nature Conservation

Asked by Joe RobertsonConservativeDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 15 June 2026UIN 8311

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 8 June 2026 to Question 5043 on Railways: Nature Conservation, what estimate her Department has made of the annual cost to Network Rail of (a) surveys and checks for nesting birds, (b)

Answered by Keir Mather

The Department / Network Rail do not hold a centrally collated estimate of the annual cost of any ecological surveys undertaken for bats, great crested newts, or nesting birds.

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