§ Mr. BakerTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list the percentages of each county covered by ancient woodland in(a) 1986 and (b) 1996 or other available years. [14535]
§ Angela EagleFigures held by English Nature, showing the change in percentage cover of ancient woodland by Count, since 1930, are as follows (figures are not available for 1986):
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County Country area sq km c1930 percentage cover 1996 percentage cover Avon 1,360 2.64 2.28 Bedfordshire 1,217 1.94 2.12 Berkshire 1,296 5.16 4.50 Buckinghamshire 1,839 4.77 4.29 Cambridgeshire 3,382 1.03 0.84 Cheshire 2,280 0.87 0.72 Cleveland 649 2.52 2.46 Cornwall 3,652 2.01 1.89 Cumbria 6,762 2.41 2.29 Derbyshire 2,675 1.82 1.67 Devon 6,655 2.25 2.23 Dorset 2,627 3.06 2.94 Durham 2,383 1.54 1.69 East Sussex 1,786 10.77 10.40 Essex 3,682 2.62 2.35 Gloucestershire 2,611 6.52 6.73 Greater London 1,579 1.78 1.57 Greater Manchester 1,391 0.61 0.61 Hampshire 3,689 7.84 6.90 Hereford and Worcester 3,870 4.97 4.70 Hertfordshire 1,598 3.73 3.31 Humberside 3,405 0.18 0.16 Isle of Wight 392 3.85 4.14 Kent 3,650 9.32 7.85 Lancashire 3,007 0.94 0.90 Leicestershire 2,493 1.06 1.01 Lincolnshire 5,987 1.09 1.04 Merseyside 661 0.19 0.17 Norfolk 5,323 0.54 0.51 North Yorkshire 8,240 1.70 1.67 Northamptonshire 2,361 3.25 2.75 Northumberland 5,031 1.02 0.96 Nottinghamshire 2,140 1.05 0.96 Oxfordshire 2,553 3.14 2.83 Shropshire 3,516 3.16 2.66 Somerset 3,495 3.01 2.64 South Yorkshire 1,631 3.50 2.85 Staffordshire 2,571 2.50 2.15
County Country area sq km c1930 percentage cover 1996 percentage cover Suffolk 3,781 1.28 1.13 Surrey 1,677 6.71 5.75 Tyne and Wear 610 2.31 2.01 Warwickshire 2,006 2.02 2.14 West Midlands 897 1.31 0.81 West Sussex 1,979 8.40 8.49 West Yorkshire 1,981 1.75 1.67 Wiltshire 3,490 3.80 3.65