Question follow-through · 38445

Forests: Bedfordshire

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.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled: 14 Mar 2025
Target answer date: 18 Mar 2025
Answer: 19 Mar 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

14 Mar 2025
Question tabled
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.
18 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Mar 2025
Answer published
Any assessment of the potential merits of expanding the Forest of Marston Vale would be made by the Forest of Marston Vale Trust and its local partners. This is one of a national network of fifteen Community Forests funded by Defra to plant thousands of h...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Rights of Way: Rivers

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