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

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what targets they have set for future woodland planting in England expressed in hectares per annum including private land, and land owned or let by charities and conservation bodies.

There have been no targets set, in terms of hectares per annum, for woodland planting. We remain committed to planting 11 million trees before the end of this Parliament. We also aspire to have 12% woodland cover by 2060 and we are committed to working with the public, private and third sectors to develop new ways of supporting landowners to plant more trees.