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<p>The Forestry Commission publishes statistics on new planting of woodland, and trees
outside woodland, in England. These can be found in <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/forestry-commission-corporate-plan-performance-indicators"
target="_blank">Forestry Commission Key Performance Indicators</a>. These statistics
are reported for each financial year in thousands of hectares.</p><p> </p><p>This
Government has not set specific targets for individual constituencies and the reporting
statistic the hon. Member has requested is not currently available.</p><p> </p><p>Our
England Trees Action Plan has kickstarted tree planting, we have planted nearly 13
million trees over the past 3 years. Last year we planted 3,600 hectares of new woodland
and trees outside of woodland, this represents the highest planting rate for nearly
a decade and an almost 40% increase on the previous year.</p>
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