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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with his counterparts in the devolved institutions on a joint approach to preserving peatlands across the UK.

The England Peat Action Plan, published in May 2021, sets out the Government’s long-term vision for the management, protection and restoration of peatlands in England.

We continue to work with all the devolved administrations when policy objectives align; for example, we have discussed the recent consultation to end the use of peat and peat containing products in horticulture, including a ban on the sale of peat in the retail sector and in developing wildfire training for the land management sector.