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Opposition day on Wednesday, 2 February 2011, in the House of Commons, led by Mary Creagh. The answering member was Caroline Spelman.

Public Forest Estate (England)

Tenth opposition day debate (part two). Closure motion. Agreed to on question. Main question negatived on division (260 to 310). Amendment agreed to on division (301 to 253). Main question, as amended, agreed to.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
522 c925-78 
Session
2010-12
Department
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Procedure
Closure motions
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 522 c944 (Link to this contribution) Order. My apologies to the hon. Gentleman. Before he starts, I thought it might be a good time to re...
Paul Maynard | 522 c928 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady mentioned the Woodland Trust. Does she agree with its chief executive, who told Radio ...
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Mary Creagh | 522 c927 (Link to this contribution) I am sure he would be spinning in his grave. I turn to the consultation document that the Governmen...
Baroness Coffey | 522 c927 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for her challenge. It is not in my constituency, but the community did indeed ...
Mary Creagh | 522 c927-8 (Link to this contribution) My question is this: was it at full open market value? That is the question to which we shall return...
James Gray | 522 c928 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady think that the Woodland Trust and the National Trust will or will not be able to ...
Mary Creagh | 522 c928 (Link to this contribution) The National Trust has come out this morning and said that the Government's plans are absolutely no ...
Hugh Bayley | 522 c928 (Link to this contribution) Literally hundreds of my constituents have written to me saying that something must be done to stop ...
Mary Creagh | 522 c928 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that invitation. I shall certainly make the journey to York to hear what ...
John McDonnell | 522 c937 (Link to this contribution) I believe that many people have read the consultation document and have understood the Government's ...
Caroline Spelman | 522 c937 (Link to this contribution) Oh, dear: yet another Opposition Member has not actually read the consultation document, which state...
Tony Baldry | 522 c937 (Link to this contribution) Is it not clear from the demeanour of Opposition Members that this is an Opposition knockabout day? ...
Caroline Spelman | 522 c937 (Link to this contribution) In a minute. The Forestry Commission was previously commended for the restoration of ancient woodla...
Barry Sheerman | 522 c937 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady produced some very well-crafted words in an earlier paragraph. She referred to a...
Ian Lavery | 522 c937 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Caroline Spelman | 522 c938 (Link to this contribution) I am very happy to give my hon. Friend that assurance, because we live in age of transparency and th...
Caroline Spelman | 522 c938 (Link to this contribution) I have made it very clear that this is a genuine consultation. It is written in an open manner and d...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 522 c938 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give a guarantee this afternoon that any sale or lease will have cast-iron...
Caroline Spelman | 522 c936 (Link to this contribution) I will give way in a minute. Fifthly, we are refocusing the work of the Forestry Commission so that...
Angela C Smith | 522 c936 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Lady add to that list of facts an agreement on the part of the Government to gua...
Caroline Spelman | 522 c935-6 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move an amendment, to leave out from ““House”” to the end of the Question and add:"““deplor...
Caroline Spelman | 522 c936 (Link to this contribution) I will give way, but I have listened to a lot of myths, so let me set the record straight first. Th...
Caroline Spelman | 522 c936 (Link to this contribution) Permissive rights apply to 2,000 hectares of the public forest estate, which itself accounts for 18%...
Hugh Bayley | 522 c936 (Link to this contribution) Talking of facts, I have here a parliamentary answer given to me by a former forests Minister in 199...
Caroline Spelman | 522 c936 (Link to this contribution) In 1996 I was not a Member of Parliament. I am dealing with a new policy, and that, it seems, is wha...
Caroline Spelman | 522 c936-7 (Link to this contribution) I will give way in a minute. The hon. Lady claimed that we were planning to sell the forests for sh...
Caroline Spelman | 522 c940-1 (Link to this contribution) Of course I can give my hon. Friend that assurance. I was very frustrated during 13 years of opposit...
Stephen Gilbert | 522 c941 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend accept that the concern in all parts of the House and in all parts of the ...
Caroline Spelman | 522 c940 (Link to this contribution) I would like to make progress. Now we have some of the facts on the record, perhaps we can have a r...
John Baron | 522 c940 (Link to this contribution) Public consultations under the Labour Government used to be a complete and utter sham. Can my right ...
Caroline Spelman | 522 c941 (Link to this contribution) Simon Hodgson is not the chief executive of the Forestry Commission, he is wrong and his fears are m...
Julian Lewis | 522 c942 (Link to this contribution) I was interested to hear that my right hon. Friend said that no organisation would be allowed to tak...
Caroline Spelman | 522 c941 (Link to this contribution) The concern has in large part been whipped up on the back of ludicrous speculation in the media. I a...
Barry Gardiner | 522 c941 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State said that there would be no transfer of woodland unless the protections that ...
Caroline Spelman | 522 c942 (Link to this contribution) I can give my hon. Friend the same assurance as I have given the National Trust, the Woodland Trust ...
Caroline Spelman | 522 c942 (Link to this contribution) I think I have said this, but for the avoidance of doubt, public access and other public benefits wi...
Edward Leigh | 522 c942 (Link to this contribution) The public care about one thing. As a result of these plans, will public access be increased or redu...
Caroline Spelman | 522 c938-9 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention, because it is important to note that when we published...
Huw Irranca-Davies | 522 c939 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Lady acknowledge that those options were ruled out of consideration and dismisse...
Caroline Spelman | 522 c939 (Link to this contribution) And the hon. Gentleman's party was not accepted by the great British public as being fit to govern t...
Tim Farron | 522 c939 (Link to this contribution) Taking my right hon. Friend back to Rigg wood and giving reassurance to local populations, our exper...
Caroline Spelman | 522 c939 (Link to this contribution) The consultation document sets out different categories of forest and woodland, because the public f...
Tessa Munt | 522 c939 (Link to this contribution) As the right hon. Lady will know, I have been very disappointed that some 100,000 acres is not cover...
Speaker | 522 c939 (Link to this contribution) Order. Goodness me. I would like Members to make their interventions brief, and not take the opportu...
Caroline Spelman | 522 c939 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I can assure the hon. Member for Wells (Tessa Munt) that there are ...
Paul Beresford | 522 c940 (Link to this contribution) Is my right hon. Friend aware that a similar approach to hers on commercial forests has been extreme...
Caroline Spelman | 522 c940 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend's helpful intervention gives me the opportunity to advise Labour Members that, while ...
Mary Creagh | 522 c932 (Link to this contribution) That is a good point, well made.
Lord McCabe | 522 c932 (Link to this contribution) Surely what the thousands of people who are contacting MPs about this matter are concerned about is ...
Mary Creagh | 522 c932 (Link to this contribution) That is indeed what has happened. [Interruption.] Yes, it has happened in the past. Why the shock? S...
Mark Spencer | 522 c932 (Link to this contribution) If the model that the hon. Lady is talking about is so impressive, does she advocate using public mo...
Mary Creagh | 522 c931-2 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is right to raise the issue of woodland in the capital, which is something that...
Joan Ruddock | 522 c931 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend have any idea what would happen to partnerships such as the Capital Woodlands pr...
Mary Creagh | 522 c931 (Link to this contribution) Yes, we risk a cross-infection of job losses across the Forestry Commission estate with these propos...
Mark Lazarowicz | 522 c930-1 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that we are talking about the jobs of those who work for the Forestry Commission. Although...
Mary Creagh | 522 c930 (Link to this contribution) I do not know what the hon. Gentleman has got against those dedicated public servants, but when I me...
David Burrowes | 522 c930 (Link to this contribution) Is not the point that many of us would be happy to chain ourselves to trees and forests, but not to ...
Desmond Swayne | 522 c930 (Link to this contribution) There are no car parking charges in the New Forest, but there are car parking charges in plenty of o...
Mary Creagh | 522 c930 (Link to this contribution) That is a very interesting point and one that I was going to make later. As the hon. Lady has raised...
Mary Creagh | 522 c930 (Link to this contribution) I am interested that the Prime Minister's Parliamentary Private Secretary—who has been writing some ...
Tim Farron | 522 c929 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes some good points. Does she agree that this Government could learn lessons from t...
Mary Creagh | 522 c928-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very interesting point and brings us back to the question of money. Who will...
Caroline Lucas | 522 c929 (Link to this contribution) The Forestry Commission currently manages all our forests to the Forest Stewardship Council standard...
Mary Creagh | 522 c929 (Link to this contribution) Let us go back to the numbers. We sold off 9,000 hectares and bought 5,000. The Government whom he s...
Clive Efford | 522 c928 (Link to this contribution) Oxleas wood in my constituency is a sight of special scientific interest and has a great deal of bio...
Mary Creagh | 522 c928 (Link to this contribution) Different forests are already under different sorts of ownership—the public forest estate makes up 1...
Speaker | 522 c934 (Link to this contribution) Minister, you will resume your seat now. Thank you. I am on my feet and I have already said that int...
Mary Creagh | 522 c934-5 (Link to this contribution) I missed some of what the Minister said, but I do not understand how his offering leases of 150 year...
Mary Creagh | 522 c934 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. For some reason, the photograph of the Chief Secretary to t...
James Paice | 522 c934 (Link to this contribution) When the hon. Lady provides the House with quotes, it would be useful if she properly attributed the...
Mary Creagh | 522 c934 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is taking all my lines. How can the Liberal Democrats fight forestry sell-offs in Sco...
Lord Sarwar | 522 c934 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend share the anger of thousands of people across the country at the double-dealing ...
Mary Creagh | 522 c933 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an interesting point. I think that the reason is that the Government are planni...
Angela C Smith | 522 c933 (Link to this contribution) Does it not surprise my hon. Friend that the Government appear to have made no mention of our much-l...
Bill Esterson | 522 c933 (Link to this contribution) I want to raise the issue of the public perception of the plans, and to read out what my constituent...
Ian Murray | 522 c934 (Link to this contribution) I should like to draw my hon. Friend's attention to a quote:"““Liberal Democrats believe that the SN...
Mary Creagh | 522 c933-4 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. My hon. Friend's point goes to the heart of the matter. The only l...
Barry Sheerman | 522 c932 (Link to this contribution) People care about our forests in this country. What we all want is a more diverse forest, with the o...
Mary Creagh | 522 c933 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is quite right; and who oversees felling licences? It is the Forestry Commission,...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 522 c932-3 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Lady will not seek to mislead either the House or the nation. Does she not acce...
Julie Hilling | 522 c943 (Link to this contribution) Even if community groups could afford to purchase woodland, why should they if it is already in publ...
Caroline Spelman | 522 c942-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman clearly was not listening to the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for ...
Peter Soulsby | 522 c942 (Link to this contribution) In practice, would not trusts and charitable organisations be absolutely crazy to take on the burden...
Huw Irranca-Davies | 522 c944 (Link to this contribution) A second start. Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. When I was in the privileged position of being the ...
Huw Irranca-Davies | 522 c943 (Link to this contribution) I do not know where to start. When I was in the position—
Guy Opperman | 522 c951 (Link to this contribution) I have yet to be satisfied that a good economic case has been made, and with so much at stake I awai...
Lilian Greenwood | 522 c951-2 (Link to this contribution) I have been prompted to speak in today's debate by the tremendous anxiety expressed by so many of my...
Jim Shannon | 522 c952 (Link to this contribution) Is there not something obscene about the sale of English woods and forests when the other regions of...
Lilian Greenwood | 522 c952 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right: those are things that we should protect. We should seek to l...
Lilian Greenwood | 522 c952-3 (Link to this contribution) We should learn from things that we get wrong as well as from things that we get right. Indeed, what...
Lilian Greenwood | 522 c953 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way to the hon. Gentleman. He has not been here for the whole debate. Today in New ...
Graham Stuart | 522 c951 (Link to this contribution) Like my hon. Friend, I have had many constituents expressing concerns about the Government's plans a...
Speaker | 522 c951 (Link to this contribution) Order. We have heard quite enough. We need very short interventions. This debate will otherwise be v...
Helen Goodman | 522 c949 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. I notice that the heritage forests, which are to be saved, are in the s...
Guy Opperman | 522 c950 (Link to this contribution) I live just outside Wark in Northumberland, which is at the centre of three historic forests—Wark, R...
Alex Cunningham | 522 c949 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister is the one who promised the north-east that the region would suffer more than mos...
Speaker | 522 c949 (Link to this contribution) Order. Mr Cunningham, everybody quite rightly wants to intervene, but we have six minutes per speake...
Speaker | 522 c950 (Link to this contribution) Order. I did not make a ruling from the Chair for it to be breached. This is a very important issue ...
Ian Lavery | 522 c950 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman says that Kielder forest is the green lungs of Northumberland, and it is the jewe...
Guy Opperman | 522 c950 (Link to this contribution) I have some concerns and I need assurances on them. The key one is public access. For the reasons gi...
Helen Goodman | 522 c948-9 (Link to this contribution) I begin by congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for Wakefield (Mary Creagh) on introducing the d...
Guy Opperman | 522 c950-1 (Link to this contribution) Each year, 475,000 cubic metres of timber are felled to supply local wood as fuel and to provide tim...
Damian Hinds | 522 c946-7 (Link to this contribution) We all recognise that this is only a consultation, but given the distinction between heritage forest...
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 522 c947 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my hon. Friend's intervention, but I would go further. I would like to know the precise me...
Hugh Bayley | 522 c947 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes an extremely important point. However, if the Forestry Commission is not there, ...
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 522 c947 (Link to this contribution) I would put that question directly to the Minister, as I have done before. I want an assurance that ...
Huw Irranca-Davies | 522 c944-5 (Link to this contribution) That is a very useful clarification, which I accept. The former Secretary of State, my right hon. F...
Bill Esterson | 522 c945 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend mentions Merseyside, and one of my constituents from Crosby, Kay Redmond, backs up wh...
Huw Irranca-Davies | 522 c945-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend's constituent is absolutely right. The issue is about not only timber production and ...
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 522 c946 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to follow the hon. Member for Ogmore (Huw Irranca-Davies), whom I had the privilege t...
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 522 c948 (Link to this contribution) I take great heart from what the Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, m...
Peter Soulsby | 522 c947-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has spoken about some of the public benefits delivered by the Forestry Commission, par...
Julian Lewis | 522 c961-2 (Link to this contribution) At the end of that classic film, ““It's a Wonderful Life””, the James Stewart character is taken bac...
Tristram Hunt | 522 c961 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. I do not accept the idea that the state intervening in the control of forests is somehow...
Julian Lewis | 522 c962-3 (Link to this contribution) I share that concern. It comes back to the exchange that I had with the Secretary of State during he...
Sarah Wollaston | 522 c962 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend share my concern that when phytophthora ramorum, otherwise known as sudden oak d...
Julian Lewis | 522 c962 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will find that I am coming to that very point. There are two models according to whic...
Neil Carmichael | 522 c962 (Link to this contribution) What I would like to know is what will happen to multi-purpose woods—those which are commercial, her...
Karl Turner | 522 c964 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that this is an opportunity for Liberal Democrat Members not to break thei...
Lord Walney | 522 c963-4 (Link to this contribution) I seem to spend a lot of time following the hon. Member for New Forest East (Dr Lewis) and agreeing ...
Julian Lewis | 522 c963 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not. I must say that I am getting a bit fed up with being put in this position, as this ...
John Pugh | 522 c963 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Speaker | 522 c958 (Link to this contribution) Order. Mr Carmichael, I have tried to tell everybody recently that we want short interventions, beca...
Greg Mulholland | 522 c959 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that Ministers simply have not allayed the very real fears in this country...
John Leech | 522 c958-9 (Link to this contribution) Guaranteeing the future of the woodland is important, but so, too, is the guardianship of that land ...
Tristram Hunt | 522 c959-60 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Manchester, Withington (Mr Leech), who, along w...
John Leech | 522 c959 (Link to this contribution) I do. One problem is the fact that the Opposition have tabled the motion at this stage rather than a...
Tristram Hunt | 522 c960 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for making that point. The Conservatives have, as they say, previous in this ...
Jim Cunningham | 522 c960 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my hon. Friend will recall that a previous Conservative Government sold off the playi...
Tristram Hunt | 522 c960 (Link to this contribution) The matter becomes difficult when we think about where many of our trees have come from. I take my h...
Tom Blenkinsop | 522 c960 (Link to this contribution) The issue is not only the potential private ownership of woods, but the nationality of the private c...
Jeremy Corbyn | 522 c961 (Link to this contribution) What my hon. Friend is saying is fascinating and excellent. Does he recall that the Forestry Commiss...
John McDonnell | 522 c957 (Link to this contribution) When charities encounter difficulties in these circumstances, they will be forced to make further sa...
John McDonnell | 522 c956 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not. TUPE does not even protect pensions. There is nothing to prevent a new employer fro...
Graham Stuart | 522 c956 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way on that point?
Neil Carmichael | 522 c958 (Link to this contribution) I have received more than 400 comments about these proposals, so I am keen for the consultation exer...
John Leech | 522 c958 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I endorse this as a proper consultation, and I hope...
David Anderson | 522 c958 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that people would take the consultation more seriously if it was a gen...
John Leech | 522 c957-8 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure whether to thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention, but we are not voting on th...
Lord Walney | 522 c957 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman or any of his colleagues emulate his party's president, the hon. Member for ...
John Leech | 522 c957 (Link to this contribution) I am glad to have the opportunity to take part in the debate. Although my constituency may not be t...
Desmond Swayne | 522 c953-5 (Link to this contribution) I am an enthusiast of the Government's policy, but given the brevity of the debate, I shall restrict...
Lilian Greenwood | 522 c953 (Link to this contribution) I have already said that I will not give way. I hope that the consultation is genuine, and that the...
Graham Stuart | 522 c956 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
John McDonnell | 522 c956 (Link to this contribution) As I have said, we need to recognise that these forests have been preserved for us by staff who have...
John McDonnell | 522 c956 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman allow me to continue? Other Members wish to speak. The consultation documen...
Lord Beith | 522 c955 (Link to this contribution) I very much endorse what the hon. Gentleman says about Forestry Commission staff, but as a constitue...
John McDonnell | 522 c955 (Link to this contribution) It is difficult to follow that. Let me be as brief as possible. I commend the hon. Member for New Fo...
Richard Graham | 522 c956 (Link to this contribution) I hear what the hon. Gentleman says, but given that the debate is about the future of our forests, i...
John McDonnell | 522 c955-6 (Link to this contribution) I understand the right hon. Gentleman's point and I have shared his concerns over the years as well....
James Paice | 522 c970 (Link to this contribution) No—I am not giving way anymore. Finally, on jobs, I want to make this point. The Government believe...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 522 c970 (Link to this contribution) claimed to move the closure (Standing Order No. 36). Question put forthwith, That the Question be n...
James Paice | 522 c969 (Link to this contribution) There will be lots of bids for heritage forest status. The criteria by which they will be judged are...
James Paice | 522 c969 (Link to this contribution) I cannot say it more clearly than I just did. We will guarantee existing rights of access on any lan...
Aidan Burley | 522 c969 (Link to this contribution) I represent Cannock chase, which is one of the great forests of England and important to everybody i...
James Paice | 522 c969 (Link to this contribution) I am not giving way to the right hon. Gentleman because he has only just come into the Chamber. The...
Steve Brine | 522 c969 (Link to this contribution) Access is the key point in the hundreds of communications that I have received. Does the Minister ag...
James Paice | 522 c968-9 (Link to this contribution) Somebody referred to the opportunity for wind farms, and we have just heard some more. A number of ...
Barry Gardiner | 522 c968 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I tabled a parliamentary question for named day answer on 31 Januar...
Speaker | 522 c968 (Link to this contribution) Order. That is not a point of order for the Chair, and it is not a matter to be dealt with now.
James Paice | 522 c968 (Link to this contribution) No, I am not going to give way.
Speaker | 522 c934 (Link to this contribution) Order. Minister, you must be brief. I think we have got the point.
Speaker | 522 c933 (Link to this contribution) Order. Interventions need to be brief.
Geraint Davies | 522 c927 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that Lloyd George, who set up the Forestry Commission in the previous Tory...
Mary Creagh | 522 c926 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely; I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that point. Let us look at the maths. The Forestry ...
Lord Walney | 522 c964 (Link to this contribution) Yes, it is. I hope that many Liberal Democrats do so today and on the Public Bodies Bill, because no...
Mary Creagh | 522 c927 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. Perhaps I should have said that the country is on the march. The S...
James Paice | 522 c968 (Link to this contribution) No. We get just a £1 million surplus from commercial logging activity. That is one of the drivers o...
Peter Soulsby | 522 c967 (Link to this contribution) I do not have time, I am afraid. Those Members reflected this evening a message that we will all he...
James Paice | 522 c967-8 (Link to this contribution) A lot of issues have been raised in the debate, and I intend to respond to as many as possible. I un...
Peter Soulsby | 522 c965-7 (Link to this contribution) The Forestry Commission is a British success story. I say that deliberately, because although we are...
George Freeman | 522 c967 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Mary Creagh | 522 c926-7 (Link to this contribution) The Minister asks how many acres of ancient trees we have. The answer is that he does not know, beca...
James Paice | 522 c926 (Link to this contribution) How many acres of ancient trees?
Emily Thornberry | 522 c927 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend refers to the countryside being on the march. Is she aware that in Islington South, w...
Caroline Spelman | 522 c937 (Link to this contribution) As always, my hon. Friend makes a sensible intervention, pointing out that we are still in the first...
Mary Creagh | 522 c930 (Link to this contribution) I wish to make a little more progress, and then I will give way. Page 20 of the document talks abou...
Mary Creagh | 522 c932 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises a key point. Much of the timber stock that is now ready for felling is being f...
Caroline Spelman | 522 c943 (Link to this contribution) As I have tried to point out, and as evidenced in the documents prepared by the previous Government,...
Andrew George | 522 c938 (Link to this contribution) Further to the point about a consultation, would my right hon. Friend care to reassure the House tha...
Lord Benyon | 522 c944 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to my predecessor for giving way. There is a very good reason why I do not have r...
Claire O'Neill | 522 c950 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend knows Savernake forest in my constituency probably better than I do, and we share a g...
James Paice | 522 c968 (Link to this contribution) On the issue of—[Hon. Members: ““Give way!””] No, I am not going to give way. On the issue of fundi...
Paul Farrelly | 522 c926 (Link to this contribution) I declare a passing interest: my wife was born in the Forest of Dean and my constituency town takes ...
Speaker | 522 c925 (Link to this contribution) I have to inform the House that Mr Speaker has selected the amendment in the name of the Prime Minis...
Bob Russell | 522 c925 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Lady inform the House when she first discovered that the last Labour Government sold b...
Mary Creagh | 522 c925 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House believes that the Government's intention in the Public Bodies Bill to...
Helen Jones | 522 c925 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend confirm that the policy of the last Labour Government involved selling off some ...
Mary Creagh | 522 c925 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted that the hon. Gentleman has raised that issue, because we can put paid to the lies ab...
James Paice | 522 c926 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Lady is so opposed to this Government taking the powers in the Public Bodies Bill, why d...
Mary Creagh | 522 c925-6 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted by my hon. Friend's mention of the Mersey forest, where 1 million trees were planted ...
Mary Creagh | 522 c926 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman makes a point about the future—[Interruption.] My question back to him is w...
Albert Owen | 522 c926 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend said that England is on the march. Wales is on the march as well, going by the number...
Mary Creagh | 522 c926 (Link to this contribution) The Public Bodies Bill, which was introduced in the Lords in October, gives the Government the power...
Barry Sheerman | 522 c956 (Link to this contribution) I chair a charitable trust, the John Clare trust. We hoped to buy some woodland, but were told that ...
Subjects
Staff Access Conservation Biodiversity Finance Forestry Commission Forests Ownership Privatisation English Nature Sales Rights of way Tree felling Cuts Woodland Trust
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