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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the (a) staff turnover rate, (b) vacancy rate and (c) average time taken to fill vacancies was for frontline operational and regulatory delivery roles in the Forestry Commission in each of the last three years.

The Forestry Commission’s staff turnover rate for frontline operational and regulatory delivery roles was 16.08% in 2023-24, 13.77% in 2024-25 and 13.79% in 2025-26. Vacancy rate information for these roles is not held. Information on the average time taken to fill vacancies for these roles is only available for 2025-26 and was 87.5 days (12.5 weeks).