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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the total value was of public forest estate land sold in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13, (d) 2013-14 and (e) 2014-15; and what estimate she has made of the likely value of such land sold in each of the next five years.

The values of public forest estate land sold in:

· 2010-11 was £12.7m

· 2011-12 was £5.6m

· 2012-13 was £0.4m

· 2013-14 was £0.43m and,

· 2014-15 was £0.28m

We expect a broadly similar pattern of land disposal and acquisition to continue. This has resulted in a small net gain of public forest estates in recent years. No estimate of any future sales of any part of the Public Forest Estate has been made.