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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will ask Natural England to produce an official habitat classification for temperate rainforests.

Temperate rainforests are included in existing habitat classifications. The special features of woodlands through the western parts of Britain are recognised in the JNCC European habitat types which describe woodlands featuring old oak (Quercus robur) holly (Ilex) and fern (blechnum) that often fall into mosaic with Tilio-Acerion forests of slopes, screes and ravines and Alluvial forests with black alder (Alnus glutinosa) and ash (Fraxinus excelsior).