Written questions

Trees: Conservation

Lords · Question HL8256 · Tabled 9 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 23 Jun 2025

Question

Asked by Lord Goodman of Wycombe

To ask His Majesty's Government how many of the 1.1 million trees planted in round 1 of the Green Recovery Challenge Fund have survived, what monitoring processes are in place to track the survival rate, and what estimate they have made of the cost per su

Answer

Answered by Baroness Hayman of Ullock, 23 Jun 2025

The Green Recovery Challenge Fund (GRCF) was an £80 million fund over two rounds to support nature recovery and conservation across England between 2020 and 2023. It was developed by the last government in response to COVID-19 and administered on behalf o...