Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much funding her Department has allocated to tree planting programmes or projects in developing countries in the financial years (a) 2020-21 and (b) 2021-22; how much such funding her Department plans to allocate in the 2022-23 financial year; and if she will publish a breakdown of that funding in each of those financial years by programme or project.

Forests and land use are an important focus of the UK's International Climate Finance. The Government supports a broad range of actions to protect forests; tackle underlying causes of forest loss, such as illegal logging and unsustainable agricultural practices; and restore degraded land. The UK does not directly fund tree planting and does not track expenditure on that basis, but does provide significant support to forest restoration.

UK support for restoration includes funding to the Africa Forest Restoration (AFR100) Initiative, a commitment by 32 African countries to restore 128m hectares of forest by 2030. This funding is helping to build capacity in the secretariat to support countries to implement national commitments. Through the Partnerships for Forests (P4F) programme, the UK also works with businesses to catalyse investment into forest restoration and provide communities with incentives and benefits to livelihoods through protecting and restoring forests.