National Forest Company

David Heath Excerpts
Friday 12th July 2013

(10 years, 10 months ago)

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David Heath Portrait The Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Mr David Heath)
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Today I am announcing a triennial review of the National Forest Company. The National Forest Company was set up in 1995 to oversee the creation of the National Forest—a multi-purpose forest across 200 square miles of the midlands.

Triennial reviews of non-departmental public bodies are part of the Government’s commitment to ensuring accountability in public life.

This review will be conducted in accordance with Government guidance for reviewing non-departmental public bodies. The review will be carried out in an open and transparent way and interested stakeholders will be given the opportunity to feed in their views. I will announce the findings of the review later in the year.

Further information on the review is available on the Government website.