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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the levels of risk to England’s trees and woodlands from drought and wildfire; and whether the forthcoming England Trees Action Plan will set out measures and funding to reduce this risk.

This year the Climate Change Committee published its fourth Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA4), this sets out the risks to trees and woodlands from climate change including wildfire and drought. Defra will set out action to respond to these risks in the forthcoming Trees Action Plan and the fourth National Adaptation Programme.