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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to plant non-woodland trees to replace those trees lost to ash dieback.

As part of our programme of research on ash dieback we have commissioned the Tree Council to undertake work on ash dieback in non-woodland settings. Through this, we are working closely with stakeholders to develop local action plans to support landowners to deal with the impacts of the ash dieback in non-woodland trees, including at the recovery phase. We are also providing more guidance and support for landowners by, for example, supplementing existing guidance such as that published by the National Tree Safety Group.