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Westminster Hall
Open Season for Woodcock - Mon 27 Feb 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Olivia Blake (LAB - Sheffield, Hallam) To meet the target, we will need to increase capacity in our domestic nurseries, but capacity and tree-planting - Speech Link
2: Robert Goodwill (CON - Scarborough and Whitby) planting and general conservation being front and centre of Government policy. - Speech Link
3: Jonathan Gullis (CON - Stoke-on-Trent North) We need to look at forestry, the deer population and habitat as well. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Climate Change: Nature-based Solutions (STC Report) - Thu 09 Feb 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brown of Cambridge (CB - Life peer) What are the Government going to do to ensure that we catch up with our tree-planting targets, given - Speech Link
2: Lord Patel (CB - Life peer) The Forestry Commission’s current policy allows free planting of trees on such soil types. - Speech Link
3: Viscount Stansgate (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) conferences.Fourthly, although initiatives such as increased tree planting are positive, they should - Speech Link
4: Lord Roborough (CON - Excepted Hereditary) UK forestry standard schemes are handicapped by a limited menu of tree species, as highlighted by the - Speech Link
5: Lord Harlech (CON - Excepted Hereditary) We have full confidence that our targets are achievable and have increased tree planting and woodland - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Environmental Improvement Plan 2023 - Mon 06 Feb 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None We are accelerating the rate of tree planting. - Speech Link
2: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) in tree planting and peatland restoration, and we will protect 30% of our land and sea for nature by - Speech Link
3: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) However, I urge her to look at what it is doing by way of tree-planting and moving to net zero where - Speech Link
4: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) needed for the very ambitious plans we have for tree planting. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Wild Deer Management and Sustainable Food - Thu 02 Feb 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Charles Walker (CON - Broxbourne) tree species, and preventing their regeneration (including coppice regrowth).”The paper also stated: - Speech Link
2: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) be done to ensure that, when we treble our tree planting in this country, we maintain healthy forests - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Environmental Improvement Plan 2023 - Wed 01 Feb 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Thérèse Coffey (CON - Suffolk Coastal) accelerating the rate of tree planting. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Plant Health and Trade in Animals and Related Products (Amendment) Regulations 2022 - Tue 31 Jan 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None The Forestry Commission has lifted its original restrictions on the movement of wood, isolated bark and - Speech Link
2: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) You can find a relatively healthy tree standing next to one that is practically dead. - Speech Link
3: None The people from the Forestry Commission who are doing this are remarkable. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Environmental Targets (Woodland and Trees Outside Woodland) (England) Regulations 2022 - Tue 24 Jan 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) Achieving this target would see both annual tree planting rates and total tree cover exceed historic - Speech Link
2: Baroness Young of Old Scone (LAB - Life peer) to include the planning system, not just Defra issues.Fourthly, we need a lot more urban tree planting - Speech Link
3: Baroness Twycross (LAB - Life peer) echo my noble friend Lady Young’s point that urban tree planting has considerable benefits, as seen - Speech Link
4: None The Government are not currently tracking their tree planting manifesto commitment. - Speech Link
5: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) It has seen progress on not just tree planting but building long-term capacity within the sector. - Speech Link


General Committees
DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL TARGETS (BIODIVERSITY) (ENGLAND) REGULATIONS 2022 DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL TARGETS (WOODLAND AND TREES OUTSIDE WOODLAND) (ENGLAND) REGULATIONS 2022 DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL TARGETS (WATER) (ENGLAND) REGULATIONS 2022 DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL TARGETS (MARINE PROTECTED AREAS) REGULATIONS 2022 DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL TARGETS (FINE PARTICULATE MATTER) (ENGLAND) REGULATIONS 2022 DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL TARGETS (RESIDUAL WASTE) (ENGLAND) REGULATIONS 2022 - Mon 23 Jan 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) , water and marine and tree planting as these are areas of greatest threat and pressure for the natural - Speech Link
2: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) Achieving that target would see annual tree planting rates and total tree cover exceed historic highs - Speech Link
3: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) Tree planting is an important natural solution to the nature and climate emergency, helping to decrease - Speech Link
4: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) the UK forestry standard will act as a real driver for native woodland planting, and ensure that the - Speech Link
5: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) This is being delivered by the UK forestry standard, which prevents the planting of monoculture forests - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill
Committee stage - Mon 12 Dec 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) It was first discovered in archaea, a branch of the tree of life that was itself discovered only in 1977 - Speech Link
2: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (LAB - Life peer) We had a policy of planting two trees for every tree cut down on land we were responsible for, so felled - Speech Link
3: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) forestry, ecosystems and woodland environments is important, which is why there may be a future for - Speech Link
4: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) As I said, I can see this finding a use in forestry and in some ornamental crops. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Sustainable Energy Generation: Burning Trees - Tue 06 Dec 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Selaine Saxby (CON - North Devon) of the 11 million tonnes of wood delivered from UK forestry every year. - Speech Link
2: Charlotte Nichols (LAB - Warrington North) Its entire justification is that the pollutants it releases are matched by equivalent plant and tree - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) early-day motion 668 on National Tree Week. - Speech Link
4: Graham Stuart (CON - Beverley and Holderness) In fact, bioenergy use does the opposite: it supports sustainable forestry. - Speech Link