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The matter of recovering and protecting vulnerable and important species is one of the five themes that the biodiversity strategy covers. The strategy has 26 actions that we are taking for nature, grouped into those five themes.
In earlier days, the boundary commission suggested that we should have around 28, but—like turkeys voting for Christmas—we suggested 26. We are quite flexible about the total number: we are realistic about that.
The number of people that it provides advice to varies, but I think that the latest figure is around 95,000 households a year, and it is consistently rated highly by high levels of the people who use it.
Further, there is the bill for the protection of VIPs during the state visit last summer. I have not seen anyone standing up to Starmer on those issues.
Our numbers within the orchestra are usually around 120 yet already we are seeing a reduction and fewer new members joining when we started our new session in August.