Question follow-through · 4719
Tree Planting: Northern Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to ensure that Northern Ireland is included in the free tree scheme this year.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 9 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 20 Sept 2024 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
9 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to ensure that Northern Ireland is included in the free tree scheme this year.
11 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Sept 2024
Answer published
Forestry is a devolved matter. Responsibility for tree planting in Northern Ireland is led by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA). Defra regularly coordinates with DAERA. There are a number of tree planting schemes in Nort...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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