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Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Ash Dieback Disease (20 Sep 2021)

Lord Benyon: The Government has a long-established Ash Dieback Health and Safety Taskforce comprising the Forestry Commission, Natural England and key stakeholders such as the National Trust, Woodland Trust, Tree Council, CLA, Arboricultural Association, Highways Agency, Network Rail and ten Local Authorities, which meets regularly and guides our approach on reducing the impact of ash dieback on public...

Ash Dieback - Question (25 Jun 2019)

Lord Gardiner of Kimble: My Lords, extensive action is being taken on ash dieback. We have restricted the movement of ash trees from other countries and invested more than £6 million in ash dieback research. The UK is coming up trumps and leading on work to identify tolerant trees. We are conducting the world’s largest screening trials and will plant the first UK archive of tolerant trees in 2020. We are advising...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Tree Felling (27 Apr 2023)

Trudy Harrison: ...regulatory powers in the Forestry Act 1967 for trees to be legally felled. The Government does not collect data on the number of individual trees that have been felled, including those affected by ash dieback. Estimating the number of trees affected by ash dieback would be challenging as felling licence applications are assessed based on intent. It is also possible that there are trees...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Ash Dieback Disease: Disease Control ( 8 Oct 2019)

George Eustice: Extensive action has been taken on ash dieback since it was first officially found in 2012. We have restricted the movement of ash and invested more than £6m in ash dieback research. We have conducted the world’s largest screening trials and in June 2019 we published the ash research strategy – this set out priority areas for future research, including the UK led work to identify...

Scottish Parliament: Environmental Protection (15 Nov 2012)

John Scott: The minister is aware that ash dieback is present at at least 14 sites in Scotland. From discussions with scientists recently, I believe that there may already be scientific solutions involving the treatment of fungal conditions, such as ash dieback. Such solutions are used in crop protection plant science, with crossovers into the treatment of human fungal conditions. What scientific...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Ash Dieback Disease: Disease Control (11 Apr 2023)

Lord Benyon: The Government provides grants for private landowners, to help with costs associated with ecological surveys and felling roadside ash with ash dieback, through the Tree Health Grant Pilot. This scheme provides financial and technical support to facilitators to coordinate the removal of dangerous ash trees along roads and public paths for groups of landowners. Support covers the costs and...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Ash Dieback Disease (20 Mar 2017)

Therese Coffey: As part of our programme of research on ash dieback we have commissioned the Tree Council to undertake work on ash dieback in non-woodland settings. Through this, we are working closely with stakeholders to develop local action plans to support landowners to deal with the impacts of the ash dieback in non-woodland trees, including at the recovery phase. We are also providing more guidance and...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Ash Dieback Disease (25 Feb 2016)

Rory Stewart: A series of research projects, jointly funded by Defra, has looked into the ecological impacts of ash dieback and investigated possible woodland management options which might ameliorate the problems caused by ash dieback. The results from this work have been published at: http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/527393 1279761408. The research found that there are tree species...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Ash Dieback Disease (13 Jul 2016)

Rory Stewart: A series of research projects, jointly funded by Defra, has looked into the ecological impacts of ash dieback and investigated possible woodland management options which might ameliorate the problems caused by ash dieback. The results from this work have been published[1]. The research found that there are tree species that share ecological traits or support some of the species associated...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Oral Answers to Questions: Agriculture and Rural Development (22 Jan 2013)

William Irwin: Given the seriousness of ash dieback and the damage that it has caused across Europe — I think that 90% of ash trees in Denmark were devastated and lost because of ash dieback — would it not have been wise for the Department and the Minister to have banned the import of ash much earlier?

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Ash Dieback Disease (22 Nov 2016)

Therese Coffey: The spread of ash dieback has been progressing much as expected. This is based on the scientific modelling of the outbreak undertaken by Cambridge University. The Government has a comprehensive surveillance programme in place to monitor the infection. The level of infection is widely variable in areas, with the south-east of England being most affected. A map showing outbreaks is updated...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Ash Dieback Disease ( 2 Mar 2023)

Lord Benyon: Since ash dieback was first detected in the UK, we have restricted the movement of ash trees from outside Europe to protect against other strains of the pathogen, and invested more than £8 million to advance our scientific understanding of this disease. We have conducted the world’s largest screening trials for tolerant trees and have planted over 3000 trees of 1000 genotypes in the...

EU: Xylella Fastidiosa - Question ( 8 Jul 2020)

Lord Gardiner of Kimble: My Lords, that is why I am again very pleased that science is helping us with ash dieback. We now have an archive of tolerant ash trees so that we can bring forward successors that will be tolerant to ash dieback. We are emphatic that we must protect the United Kingdom.

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Ash Dieback Disease (20 Mar 2017)

Therese Coffey: We are working closely with local authorities to help them deal with the impacts of ash dieback by supporting them to be prepared and by providing guidance. Infected ash trees can survive dieback for many years, continuing to provide recreational and biodiversity benefits, and could provide a source of disease tolerance in the future. For this very reason we are not encouraging the removal...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs: Tree Planting: Progress ( 8 Sep 2020)

Edwin Poots: In some senses, that is merely a replacement for what has been lost, but we are looking for new trees to be planted. I recognise the difficulty of ash dieback, but that is a slightly separate issue, if we were to identify support for it. I recognise that ash dieback has the potential to ruin a population of trees that has existed for centuries, not just in Northern Ireland or Ireland but...

1. Questions to the First Minister: The Natural Environment in the South Wales Valleys (30 Apr 2019)

Mark Drakeford: Llywydd, can I thank the Member for that question? He's absolutely right to point to the recent reports of the impact that ash dieback is already having in Wales and that it could go on having into the future. It's an example of the way in which threats to species do not observe any geographical barriers. Natural Resources Wales will lead for the Welsh Government in our response to ash...

Traffic-related Air Pollution - Question (21 Dec 2022)

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering: My Lords, does my noble friend the Minister agree that trees play an important role in improving environmental health? When might we expect the environmental improvement plan to be published? Ash dieback has had a devasting effect on many ash trees in areas owned by local councils, so has he made an estimate of the cost of removing ash trees damaged by dieback in our hedgerows and grasslands...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Ash Dieback Disease (14 May 2019)

Robert Goodwill: We do not collate costs relating to felling of diseased ash. Individual landowners, including local authorities, are responsible for the care and management of ash trees on their land. The cost of ash dieback will differ between local authorities, depending on the prevalence of ash trees and the concentration of those trees that are affected by the disease. Council budgets for the care and...

Tree Pests and Diseases - Motion to Take Note (13 Feb 2020)

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering: ...make two points. First, I do not think any noble Lord has mentioned Fera Science Ltd, the national agri-food innovation campus at Sand Hutton, which played a very special role in the scenario when ash dieback broke out. It is trying to find, first and foremost, a formula to prevent the spread of ash dieback, but also some way to immunise trees, as has been the case in Denmark. I am...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Ash Dieback Disease (14 May 2019)

Robert Goodwill: ...Occupiers Liability Act, individual landowners are responsible for the care and management of trees on their land. We encourage all landowners to think strategically about the management of their ash trees, and use the recently published Forestry Commission guidance and the Tree Council’s ash dieback toolkit, to adopt best practice and help reduce the impact of this disease on our...


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