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1403896

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	date	18/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Tree Planting
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to expand its existing tree nursery production scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Bootle
	tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
	uin	106742
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2022 answer text <p>In the England Trees Action Plan the Government committed to provide funding to support UK public and private sector nurseries and seed suppliers to enhance the quantity, quality, diversity and biosecurity of domestic tree production. Our interventions will help the sector to modernise existing facilities and explore innovative technologies and practices. This is necessary to create a resilient, healthy, and genetically diverse planting stock.</p><p> </p><p>In the past year £1 million has been made available through the Tree Production Innovation Fund to encourage adoption of new technologies and ways of working, and a further £2.6 million has been made available in capital grants to support climate and disease resilience and expand nursery capacity. We are also exploring new data sharing practices to help better plan for supply and demand in the sector. This will support nurseries and seed suppliers to produce the right stock at the right time.</p><p> </p><p>We continue to work to monitor our interventions and see how the nursery sector can best be supported.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 21/01/2022 14:16:36 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

1403897

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Tree Planting
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to consult on the introduction of a statutory tree planting target.
	tabling member constituency	Bootle
	tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
	uin	106743
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2022 answer text <p>As set out in the Net Zero Strategy, we will explore a long-term statutory tree target in England as part of the suite of targets to be introduced using powers in the Environment Act.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 21/01/2022 14:14:12 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd