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Tree Planting: Highways England |
| Question ID: |
1759303 |
| UIN: |
26904 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-28 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5062 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Nick Timothy
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Nick Timothy
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many trees have been planted by Highways England in each year between 2014 and 2024; and what the cost to the public purse was of this work. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-05 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4029 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Lilian Greenwood
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| Answering Member handle: |
LilianGreenwood
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@LilianGreenwood
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| Answer text: |
National Highways (NH) does not keep a central record of the number of trees they have planted across England in any given year. However, as outlined in their ‘Net zero highways: our 2030 / 2040 / 2050 plan’, NH aims to plant at least 3 million trees by 2... |
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| Answering body ID: |
27 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Transport |
| Tweeted: |
true |