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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of helping establish a Forest School in Suffolk; and if he will make a statement.

The department recognises the benefits of forest schools for children and young people and the opportunities they provide to develop confidence through hands-on learning in a woodland environment. Proposals for any specific forest school, in Suffolk or elsewhere, would need to be assessed on their merits.