Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 89286

Tree Planting

Tabled: 10 November 2025
Answered: 18 November 2025

Question

Callum Anderson

LabourBuckingham and Bletchley

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to ensure local communities are involved in the management of new national forests.

Answer

Mary Creagh
Community engagement is central to the approach we will encourage these new national forests to apply, and reflects the approach embedded by the original National Forest in the Midlands, which is managed by the National Forest Company. As an illustration ...

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