Source · Select Committees · Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Third Report - Tree planting
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
HC 356
Published 21 March 2022
Recommendations
1
Accepted in Part
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We welcome the UK Government’s ambition to plant 30,000 hectares of new woodland a year...
Recommendation
We welcome the UK Government’s ambition to plant 30,000 hectares of new woodland a year by 2025 in the UK. However, the Government has not set a clear target for England’s contribution, which will likely require England to treble its …
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Government Response Summary
The government outlines existing plans to increase planting rates in England with a trajectory towards 7,500 hectares per year by 2025, but stops short of setting concrete annual targets as requested in the recommendation.
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Accepted in Part
We welcome the Government’s extension of the Seasonal Workers Pilot to the ornamental sector which...
Recommendation
We welcome the Government’s extension of the Seasonal Workers Pilot to the ornamental sector which should go some way to addressing the immediate labour shortage facing the sector. We recommend that Defra and the Home Office work with the nursery …
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Government Response Summary
The government extended the Seasonal Worker Visa Route to 2024 and included tree nursery workers in the scope of the scheme; however, it will not extend the visa length to 9 months and plans to taper the number of visas available from 2023.