– Scottish Parliament written question – answered on 11th March 2011.
Jim Hume
Liberal Democrat
Question S3W-39942
To ask the Scottish Executive how many hectares of commercial woodland have been planted in the national forestry estate in each year since 1999, also broken down by local authority area.
Roseanna Cunningham
Scottish National Party
The amount of hectares planted in the national forest estate is listed in the following tables:
| Local Authority Area | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
| Aberdeen City | 11 | 10 | 0 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 46 | 0 | 7 |
| Aberdeenshire | 382 | 388 | 381 | 457 | 467 | 461 | 397 | 426 | 271 | 335 | 295 |
| Angus | 30 | 54 | 35 | 52 | 40 | 42 | 19 | 85 | 7 | 13 | 22 |
| Argyll and Bute | 759 | 789 | 997 | 968 | 841 | 846 | 1,025 | 995 | 1,011 | 876 | 1,020 |
| Clackmannanshire | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 1,133 | 1,382 | 1,151 | 1,294 | 1,352 | 1,259 | 1,322 | 973 | 1,217 | 1,489 | 796 |
| East Ayrshire | 2 | 54 | 92 | 17 | 17 | 188 | 160 | 31 | 195 | 160 | 70 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 7 | 0 |
| Falkirk | 21 | 2 | 0 | 29 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Fife | 16 | 5 | 10 | 49 | 22 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 37 | 57 | 80 |
| Highland | 495 | 598 | 561 | 771 | 535 | 592 | 625 | 698 | 686 | 683 | 553 |
| Inverclyde | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| Midlothian | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Moray | 114 | 126 | 336 | 226 | 193 | 228 | 80 | 96 | 122 | 63 | 96 |
| North Ayrshire | 43 | 39 | 42 | 34 | 37 | 45 | 45 | 57 | 76 | 69 | 21 |
| North Lanarkshire | 16 | 8 | 61 | 39 | 29 | 87 | 99 | 5 | 28 | 54 | 28 |
| Perth and Kinross | 54 | 115 | 135 | 188 | 126 | 174 | 145 | 109 | 89 | 85 | 75 |
| Renfrewshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 66 |
| Scottish Borders | 233 | 356 | 305 | 356 | 373 | 384 | 391 | 253 | 478 | 426 | 509 |
| South Ayrshire | 133 | 285 | 303 | 189 | 246 | 300 | 177 | 254 | 324 | 111 | 385 |
| South Lanarkshire | 0 | 24 | 22 | 21 | 13 | 17 | 5 | 33 | 173 | 33 | 176 |
| Stirling | 197 | 133 | 227 | 197 | 204 | 293 | 269 | 111 | 222 | 264 | 205 |
| West Lothian | 12 | 9 | 0 | 42 | 89 | 0 | 57 | 35 | 70 | 35 | 35 |
| Total | 3,650 | 4,382 | 4,659 | 4,952 | 4,611 | 4,933 | 4,817 | 4,167 | 5,077 | 4,760 | 4,489 |
Note:
* Planting year runs from 1 October until 30 September the following year.
*2010 planting figures.
| Forest Districts | Hectares |
| North Highland | 308 |
| Lochaber | 129 |
| Inverness, Ross and Skye | 291 |
| Moray and Aberdeenshire | 245 |
| Tay | 192 |
| Cowal and Trossachs | 222 |
| West Argyll | 607 |
| Scottish Lowlands | 316 |
| Dumfries and Borders | 378 |
| Galloway | 827 |
| Total | 3,515 |
Note: *Figures are only available at this moment in time in by Forest District boundaries.
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