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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the English Tree Partnership Community Forests Woodland Creation Scheme.

England’s Community Forests are performing well and are key to our tree planting ambitions. Funding from the Nature for Climate Fund Programme directly resulted in over 2400 hectares of tree planting with the Community Forests supporting new planting of 1000 hectares in 22/23 alone. This corresponds to 42% of all the planting achieved by the England Trees Programme.