HC Deb 19 June 1989 vol 155 cc43-4W
Mr. Ron Davies

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will state the distribution by county in England and Wales and by region in Scotland of land approved for inclusion in the farm woodland scheme and the amount of such land on which forestry operations have commenced.

Mr. Ryder

As at 16 June 1989, our computer record shows the information for England as follows:

County Hectares
Avon 5
Bedfordshire 16
Berkshire 27
Buckinghamshire 50
Cleveland 0
Cambridgeshire 96
Cheshire 23
Cornwall 15
Cumbria 42
Derbyshire 17
Devon 156
Dorset 85
Durham 3
Essex 54
Gloucestershire 171
Hampshire 24
Hereford and Worcester 167
Hertfordshire 6
Humberside 59
Isle of Wight 0
Kent 24
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 24
Lincolnshire 29
Greater London 0
Greater Manchester 0
Merseyside 0
West Midlands 3
Norfolk 297
Northamptonshire 120
Northumberland 34
Nottinghamshire 25
Oxfordshire 163
Shropshire 23
Somerset 55
Staffordshire 19
Suffolk 201
Surrey 0
East Sussex 12
West Sussex 15
Tyne and Wear 0
Warwickshire 26
Wiltshire 92
North Yorkshire 87
South Yorkshire 0
West Yorkshire 0

No details of the area planted are yet available. The situations in Wales and Scotland are matters for my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Wales and Scotland.

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