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 page 73 of the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021, published on 27 October 2021, how much and what proportion of the £0.3 billion allocated to his Department for (a) tree planting and (b) peat restoration for the 2024-25 financial year has been spent; and how much he plans to spend on tree planting in the 2025-26 financial year.

Our financial year runs from April to March, therefore, the 2024-25 financial year has not started, so no money has been spent for this financial year.

The current spending review runs up to March 2025, therefore no budgets have been formally agreed past this point.