Environment Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 17 January 2011.
Peter Soulsby
Labour, Leicester South
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what her policy is on the inclusion of woodlands designated by the Forestry Commission as heathland in that body's disposals programme; and what recent submissions she has received on this matter.
James Paice
The Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Heathland and other open habitats are a small component of many of the Forestry Commission's woodlands across England. Under the previous Government, the Forestry Commission England selected its woodland sales programme from those areas which provide limited added value from public ownership in the delivery of public benefits. We are currently considering the sales criteria for woodland that will be placed on the market in 2011-12.
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