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Tree Planting: Bedfordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many trees he plans to plant in Bedfordshire as part of plans to increase woodland cover.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
13 Mar 2025
Target answer date
17 Mar 2025
Answer
20 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 13 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many trees he plans to plant in Bedfordshire as part of plans to increase woodland cover.

  2. 17 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 20 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    Tree planting grant schemes are demand led so it is not generally possible to state where the trees will be newly planted, although a range of sensitivities will prevent permission to plant being granted in some locations. Additional planting will be depe...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Possible follow-up questions

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Forests: Bedfordshire

14 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of expanding the Forest of Marston Vale community forest to the south.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Electricity Generation: Infrastructure

14 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of hectares of forestry land that will be made available for energy generation, in the context of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Electricity Generation: Infrastructure

14 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to provide guidance to forestry authorities on prioritising energy generation in the context of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Floods Resilience Taskforce

21 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the Flood Resilience Taskforce Model to consider wider resilience challenges.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Local Government: Ecology

21 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support the recruitment of additional ecologists in local government.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Farmers: Income

21 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 17 February 2025 to Question 30413 on Farmers: Income, if he will make an estimate of median income for farmers in the 2023-24 financial year.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Flood Control

21 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress the Government's Flood Resilience Taskforce has made on improving flood resilience in high-risk areas.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Floods and Temperature

21 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of AXA UK's report entitled Extreme weather risks: An analysis of England’s vulnerability to flooding

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Beavers: Bedfordshire

21 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his Department's policy paper entitled Wild release and management of beavers in England, published on 28 February 2025, whether he has plans to take steps to release

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Local Government: Public Records

31 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding for local record centres.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Floods: Insurance

31 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will have discussions with (a) insurance companies and (b) the Association of British Insurers on the sharing of data on surface water flood claims with the Environment Agency.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Inland Waterways: East of England

31 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Water investment to unlock growth in East of England, published on 13 March 2025, if he will make an assessment of the potenti