Tree Planting: Yorkshire and the Humber
(asked on 24th June 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many trees have been planted between Leeds and Hull in the last five years.
Answered by
David Rutley
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
Neither Defra nor the Forestry Commission record tree planting data except for trees planted in England with central Government support.
The table below contains a breakdown of the planting of new trees supported by the Rural Development Programme for England, and other forms of Government support, in Local Authority areas between Leeds and Hull, for the five years 2014-15 to 2018-19.
Administrative area from west to east | Approximate number of trees: newly planted | Equivalent number of hectares: newly planted |
Leeds | 3,200 | 1.6 |
Wakefield | 1,300 | 0.3 |
Selby | 11,600 | 7.2 |
York Unitary Area | 2,800 | 3.6 |
East Riding of Yorkshire Unitary Area | 28,900 | 19.1 |
City of Kingston upon Hull | 3,500 | 1.8 |
Total for these six administrative areas | 51,300 | 33.6 |