Peat
(asked on 24th May 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 data her Department holds on (a) sales of commercial peat and (b) the amount of peat dug from the ground for commercial purposes in the past 12 months.
This question was answered on 5th June 2023
The latest published data is for sales in 2021.
In 2021, 1,648,057 cubic metres of peat was sold in the UK for use in horticulture (excluding mushroom production), of this 624,131 cubic metres were extracted in the UK.
The Horticultural Trades Association will shortly be publishing the results of the joint Defra and industry funded monitoring round for 2022.