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

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure the number of trees planted annually will meet their target of 11 million trees by 2020, in the light of the Committee on Climate Change report of 28 June.

The Government is confident its commitment to plant 11 million trees during this Parliament will be met. Last year we piloted changes to the Woodland Carbon Fund and Woodland Creation Planning Grant, which have been successful in encouraging greater uptake of these schemes. We have therefore recently made these changes permanent. We continue to actively engage with the sector to promote uptake of available schemes.