Peat: Fires
(asked on 28th August 2026) - 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 she has made of the amount of peat destroyed by the 2025 wildfires.
Answered by
Jenny Riddell-Carpenter
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 8th September 2026
The Government is protecting peat from wildfire through peatland restoration and is committed to restoring 280,000 hectares of peatland by 2050. Figures for the scale of wildfires on peat and the amount peat destroyed are not yet available. Work is underway to evaluate the impact of the 2025 wildfires on peatlands.