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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the 2019 Conservative manifesto commitment to plant an additional 75,000 acres of trees a year by the end of the next Parliament, how much has been spent on tree planting as of 28 February 2024.

The Nature for Climate Programme has spent £272.4m between April 2020 and February 2024 on tree planting and activities to increase the capacity of the forestry sector. The Programme will continue to fund these activities until the end of 2024/25, supporting the Government’s commitment to treble tree planting rates by the end of this Parliament.