Responding to an urgent question from Labour's John Cryer on 14 February 2011, Mr Gove said the judge had ruled against the government on "two procedural grounds", but had backed the decision-making process on all "substantive" points.
This would mean that we have installed immediate safeguards around biodiversity as well as made substantive progress in mainstreaming biodiversity into governmental and societal decision making, thereby taking us off the course of catastrophic destruction and on a course of sustainability.