Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 102114

Tree Planting: Oxford-Cambridge Arc

Tabled: 2 January 2026
Answered: 9 January 2026

Question

Alex Mayer

LabourDunstable and Leighton Buzzard

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of afforestation on hydrology in the Oxford–Cambridge Forest region.

Answer

Mary Creagh
As part of our approach to the New National Forest in the OxCam region -spatial data will be used to prioritise sites for woodland creation that will deliver public benefits such as flood management and mitigation as well as other water management functio...

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