| Heading: |
Forests: Environment Protection |
| Question ID: |
1812701 |
| UIN: |
59909 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-13 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5051 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Kevin Bonavia
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| Asking Member handle: |
kevinbonavia
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@kevinbonavia
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the merits of modernising the licensing system for forestry operations to provide greater protection for ancient woodlands. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-18 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1579 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Mary Creagh
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| Answering Member handle: |
marycreagh_
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@marycreagh_
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
England’s trees and woodlands are protected by a number of regulatory regimes. These include the felling licence regime, the environmental impact assessment regulations, tree preservation orders, sites of special scientific interest and the planning regim... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |