Tree Planting

(asked on 24th April 2023) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate her Department has made of the number of trees that were planted in England in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.


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Trudy Harrison Portrait
Trudy Harrison
This question was answered on 27th April 2023

The Forestry Commission produces statistics on all new planting of woodland for the UK. These can be found in Forestry Statistics on the Forest Research website. These statistics are reported for each financial year in thousands of hectares. The latest available figures are for 2021-22.

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