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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding (a) his Department allocated to and (b) was spent by the (i) Woodland Carbon Guarantee scheme, (ii) Woods into Management Forestry Innovation Funds, (iii) Tree Production Innovation Fund, (iv) Local Authority Treescapes Fund , (v) Urban Tree Challenge Fund, (vi) Tree Production Capital Grant, (vii) England Woodland Creation Offer, (viii) Woodland Creation Accelerator Fund and (ix) Trees Call to Action Fund in each year since 2010; and how much funding his Department has allocated to each project in each of the next five years.

The £640 million Nature for Climate Fund will support peat restoration, woodland creation and management until 2025. Nature for Climate Fund deployment in future years is dependent on analysis of previous year’s performance across projects and workstreams. The table below provides the grant allocation and spend with in-year adjustments. All grants are capital monies aside from the woodland creation accelerator fund, which is revenue.

^{1 The Woodland Carbon Guarantee is a £50 million scheme that aims to help accelerate woodland planting rates and develop the domestic market for woodland carbon for the permanent removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The Woodland Carbon Guarantee applicants can sell their carbon credits to the government at a future date set in the future for a guaranteed price. There is no obligation to sell and they can do so only starting in 2025.}

^{2 England Woodland Creation Offer includes the Woodland Creation Planning Grant and Woodland Carbon Fund}