Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 104884

Peatlands

Tabled: 12 January 2026

Answered: 16 January 2026

Question

Matt Vickers

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the press release entitled England’s peatlands mapped for first time in major step towards their recovery, published on 12 May 2025, whether her Department's assessme

Answer

Mary Creagh

The England Peat Map has not assessed peatland as degraded or not and so cannot determine the proportions of degraded peatland in each category mentioned. Work is currently ongoing to incorporate England Peat Map outputs into the Greenhouse Gas Inventory,...

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