Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 80034

Forests: Biodiversity

Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 17 October 2025

Question

Alex Mayer

LabourDunstable and Leighton Buzzard

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle reductions in biodiversity in existing woodlands; and what steps she plans to take through the Environmental Improvement Plan to moni

Answer

Mary Creagh
Expanding our trees, woodlands and forests is an important tool at our disposal for reversing reductions in our woodland biodiversity. Establishing native woodland has made the greatest contribution to the increase in priority habitats in recent years, an...

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