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 Sustainable Land and Soils Grant.

Grant Programme names in the Government grants register do not always directly correspond with the delivery scheme where the funding is routed. In this case, the reference to Sustainable Land and Soils Grant funded the Trees for Schools scheme, which the Woodland Trust ran from 2016-2020. The scheme was evaluated independently at the time. It delivered over 450,000 trees to primary schools across England and is estimated to have helped connect over 300,000 children with nature.