To ask Her Majesty's Government how many trees have been felled to date in London to facilitate the construction of HS2.

More than 650 hectares of new woodland will be planted between London and Birmingham as part of the first phase of HS2. A contract was awarded in 2016 to grow 7 million trees and shrubs.

We have also established a £5 million woodland fund to create new native, broadleaf woodland, and enhance existing ancient woodland.

However, it is inevitable in the construction of a new project that trees will need to be felled. HS2 Ltd has to date removed

• 117 trees in the London Borough of Camden
• One tree in the London Borough of Ealing.
• 3.6 hectares of vegetation has been cleared in the London Borough of Hillingdon(outside the centre of London the area of vegetation removed is recorded rather than the number of individual trees).