Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to provide centralised resources, information and guidance on climate change adaptation for (a) landowners, (b) woodland managers and (c) forestry practitioners.

Launched in January this year Forest Research’s climate change hub centralises the latest resources, information and guidance on climate change adaptation to support landowners, woodland managers and forestry practitioners in addressing climate change threats. Forest Research has also published a new guide for forest managers to help adapt woodlands for climate change; the UK Forestry Standard Practice Guide ‘Adapting forest and woodland management to the changing climate’. The third National Adaptation Programme, due for publication later this year, will include Government actions to address climate change risks and opportunities to the forestry sector. Last year, the Forestry Commission published its Climate change adaptation reporting power third round report, this was part of the third round of the adaptation reporting powers under the Climate Change 2008 Act.