Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to help restore peat bogs; and what targets she has set for peat bog restoration.

The England Peat Action Plan, published in May 2021, sets out a strategic framework to improve management and protection of both our upland and lowland peatlands. In the Net Zero Strategy, we committed to restore approximately 280,000 hectares of peatland in England by 2050.  Government is currently funding peatland restoration through the Nature for Climate Fund, which aims to restore approximately 35,000 ha of peatland by 2025. This represents a tripling of historic average annual restoration levels.