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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has had recent discussions with the Minister for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in Northern Ireland on the conservation of forests.

Forestry is a devolved area, however Defra and the Devolved Administrations engage regularly at technical and official levels on issues related to the conservation of forests, for example through the UK Forestry Governance Group and the Net Zero UK Working Group, with representatives from all four nations meeting to share data and increase collaboration.