Select Committee · Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee

Tree Planting and Woodlands

Status: Closed Opened: 1 Oct 2020 Closed: 20 Jul 2022 15 recommendations 1 conclusion 1 report

The Government has promised a massive acceleration in the rate of tree planting to help offset greenhouse gas emissions. But questions have been raised about whether the targets are the right ones, whether the right types of trees will be planted in the right places, and whether enough is being done to protect existing woodlands. …

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Reports

1 report
Title HC No. Published Items Response
Third Report - Tree planting HC 356 21 Mar 2022 16 Responded

Recommendations & Conclusions

1 item
7 Recommendation Third Report - Tree planting Deferred

Increasing domestic timber production and consumption can provide an additional revenue stream to support tree-planting,...

Increasing domestic timber production and consumption can provide an additional revenue stream to support tree-planting, whilst helping to store carbon and reduce the UK’s reliance on timber imports, which contributes to overseas deforestation. While we welcome the steps the Government is taking to boost domestic production and increase the use …

Government response. The government has established a cross-Government and cross-industry Timber in Construction (TiC) policy roadmap working group that will report before the end of this Parliament, after further research and scoping is completed.

Oral evidence sessions

5 sessions
Date Witnesses
23 Nov 2021 Edward Barker · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, The Rt Hon Lord Goldsmith · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs View ↗
14 Sep 2021 Alan Law · Natural England, George Dunn · Tenants Farmers Association, Judicaelle Hammond · Country Land and Business Association, Sir William Worsley · Forestry Commission, Steph Rhodes · Forestry Commission’s England Tree Planting Programme, Tom Bradshaw · National Farmers' Union (NFU), Tony Juniper · Natural England View ↗
13 Jul 2021 Dr Darren Moorcroft · The Woodland Trust, Emi Murphy · Friends of the Earth, Jenna Hegarty · Royal Society for Protection of Birds (RSPB), Jill Butler · Forest of Selwood Community Interest Company, Melanie Baines · The United Kingdom Environmental Law Association, Robin Gray · National Association of AONBs View ↗
15 Jun 2021 Brian Fraser · Horticultural Trades Association, Caroline Ayres · Confor, David Sutherland · Buckinghamshire Council, Hamish Macleod · BSW Timber Group, Jen Turner · Royal Forestry Society, Shireen Chambers · Institute of Chartered Foresters View ↗
9 Mar 2021 Amanda Thomson · UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Jim Mackinnon CBE, Professor Ian Bateman · University of Exeter View ↗

Correspondence

1 letter
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14 Jul 2021 Correspondence from the Chair to Lord Goldsmith in relation to the possible clo…