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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether Forestry Commission England has plans to report on progress on achieving the Government’s objective of planting 180,000 hectares of new woodland in England by the end of 2042 in its Annual Corporate Plan.

Statistics on all known new planting of woodland and on the area of woodland in England are already published annually by the Forestry Commission in Forestry Statistics, available on the Forest Research website.