Question follow-through · 33771
Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made an estimate of the quantity of (a) commercial forest timber and (b) waste wood products that will be needed to achieve the government’s target of 1.5mil
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 25 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 6 Mar 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made an estimate of the quantity of (a) commercial forest timber and (b) waste wood products that will be needed to achieve the government’s target of 1.5mil
27 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Mar 2025
Answer published
We do not yet have an estimate of the required timber and waste wood required to meet the Government's housing targets. The current forecast of softwood availability for Great Britain is a total average of 25.2 million cubic metres of softwood timber per ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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