Member

These leaders recognised the ancient wisdom of preventive burns, calling them “Indigenous” and “cultural”, so my final question for the Minister is: why do this Government accept Natural England’s recommendations when our own Prime Minister signed up to the use of controlled burning only four months ago at the G7 conference? The blame for future and much larger and more damaging wildfires, which could—indeed, will—lead to deaths, will be laid fair and square at the feet of Natural England and this Government.