Forests
(asked on 4th February 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the proportion of the UK covered by woodland in each of the last 10 years.
Woodland statistics are published annually by the Forestry Commission. Figures published each year for the last ten years are reproduced in the table below.
UK | ||
Year | Woodland Area (000 ha) | % Woodland |
2014 1,2 | 3,138 | 12.9 |
2013 1,2 | 3,127 | 12.9 |
2012 1,2 | 3097 | 12.8 |
2011 3 | 3078 | 12.7 |
2010 3 | 2846 | 12.7 |
2009 4 | 2841 | 11.7 |
2008 4 | 2841 | 11.7 |
2007 4 | 2837 | 11.7 |
2006 4 | 2829 | 11.6 |
2005 4 | 2825 | 11.6 |
2004 4 | 2817 | 11.6 |
1. Figures for England, Wales and Scotland are based on data obtained from the National Forest Inventory (NFI) and adjusted for new planting, but at present no adjustment is made for woodland recently converted to another land use.
2. Figures for Northern Ireland are obtained from the Northern Ireland Woodland Register.
3. Figures for England, Wales and Scotland are based on 2010 data obtained from the National Forest Inventory and adjusted for new planting, but at present no adjustment is made for woodland recently converted to another land use. The NFI did not include Northern Ireland.
4. Non-FC woodland figures for 2004-2009 for England, Wales and Scotland are based on the 1995-99 National Inventory of Woodland and Trees (NIWT) and adjusted for new planting and sales of FC woodland, but at present no adjustment is made for woodland converted to another land-use. The NIWT did not include Northern Ireland.