Correspondence with Defra on OEP monitoring report response deadlines

We published environmental law monitoring reports earlier this year, looking at Local Nature Recovery Strategies and Environmental Inspections. 

The deadline for Defra to lay formal responses to these reports before Parliament fell on 19 September and 10 October respectively.

Defra has written to the OEP to explain delays to meeting these deadlines. That letter and our response can be found to the right of this page. 

The two monitoring reports can be found here: 

Local nature recovery has an important part to play in helping government deliver its ‘win-win’ for the environment and economic growth, says OEP report | Office for Environmental Protection

Environmental Inspections in England - Case studies on selected laws and their implementation | Office for Environmental Protection