Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many reports of oak processionary moth there have been in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority area.
The table below shows the number of sites reported as infested with oak processionary moth and which were served a statutory plant health notice between 2017 and 2021, using data provided up until 5 October 2021.
Number of sites infested with oak processionary moth, 2017-2021:
Local authority | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
Barking and Dagenham | 3 | 5 | 1 | ||
Barnet | 27 | 61 | 13 | 31 | 23 |
Basildon | 4 | 6 | |||
Basingstoke and Deane | 1 | ||||
Bexley | 9 | 18 | 19 | 45 | 34 |
Bracknell Forest | 2 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 21 |
Brent | 34 | 30 | 16 | 9 | 3 |
Brentwood | 1 | 7 | 13 | ||
Bromley | 25 | 36 | 6 | 31 | 13 |
Broxbourne | 3 | 12 | 19 | ||
Buckinghamshire | 6 | 6 | 7 | 28 | 27 |
Camden | 14 | 23 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
Castle Point | 3 | ||||
Central Bedfordshire | 1 | ||||
Chelmsford | 1 | 2 | |||
Cheshire West and Chester | 1 | ||||
City of London | 1 | ||||
City of Westminster | 1 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 |
Crawley | 1 | 1 | |||
Croydon | 4 | 11 | 4 | 11 | 6 |
Dacorum | 3 | 2 | 4 | ||
Dartford | 7 | 6 | 7 | 6 | |
Ealing | 43 | 32 | 51 | 7 | 13 |
East Hertfordshire | 3 | 10 | 15 | 16 | |
Elmbridge | 37 | 118 | 102 | 219 | 133 |
Enfield | 2 | 6 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
Epping Forest | 1 | 6 | 12 | 40 | 48 |
Epsom and Ewell | 17 | 51 | 21 | 59 | 25 |
Gravesham | 1 | ||||
Greenwich | 7 | 25 | 31 | 42 | 19 |
Guildford | 34 | 87 | 62 | 80 | 111 |
Hackney | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
Hammersmith and Fulham | 16 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 |
Haringey | 5 | 19 | 9 | 21 | 6 |
Harlow | 3 | ||||
Harrow | 3 | 15 | 4 | 14 | 15 |
Hart | 1 | ||||
Havering | 1 | 3 | 11 | 21 | 34 |
Hertsmere | 1 | 4 | 36 | 39 | |
Hillingdon | 9 | 29 | 19 | 60 | 35 |
Horsham | 1 | ||||
Hounslow | 28 | 26 | 14 | 4 | 10 |
Islington | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |
Kensington and Chelsea | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |
Kingston upon Thames | 68 | 27 | 59 | 7 | 20 |
Lambeth | 7 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 3 |
Lewisham | 4 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 1 |
Luton | 1 | ||||
Medway | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Merton | 47 | 14 | 28 | 12 | 12 |
Mid Sussex | 1 | ||||
Mole Valley | 18 | 53 | 80 | 106 | 45 |
Newham | 3 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 2 |
Reading | 1 | ||||
Redbridge | 1 | 5 | 8 | 25 | 15 |
Reigate and Banstead | 1 | 4 | 3 | 21 | 21 |
Richmond upon Thames | 69 | 15 | 41 | 6 | 24 |
Runnymede | 9 | 26 | 25 | 94 | 80 |
Rushmoor | 4 | 12 | 12 | ||
Sevenoaks | 5 | 4 | 12 | 12 | |
Slough | 4 | 10 | 2 | 12 | 2 |
Southend-on-Sea | 1 | 1 | |||
Southwark | 30 | 7 | 4 | 14 | 6 |
Spelthorne | 10 | 21 | 17 | 48 | 12 |
St. Albans | 6 | 13 | 22 | ||
Surrey Heath | 5 | 17 | 22 | ||
Sutton | 23 | 28 | 9 | 65 | 2 |
Tandridge | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |
Three Rivers | 3 | 18 | 10 | ||
Thurrock | 3 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 20 |
Tower Hamlets | 4 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
Waltham Forest | 3 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 9 |
Wandsworth | 38 | 9 | 23 | 12 | 10 |
Watford | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||
Waverley | 1 | 7 | 9 | 6 | |
Welwyn Hatfield | 2 | 5 | 12 | ||
West Oxfordshire | 3 | ||||
Windsor and Maidenhead | 1 | 5 | 12 | 40 | 53 |
Woking | 10 | 11 | 109 | 90 | |
Wokingham | 2 | 8 | 11 | ||
Total | 676 | 908 | 845 | 1587 | 1252 |