SNP plants nearly 20 times as many new trees as Labour Wales and more than 3 times as many as Conservative England

Image: Paul Tomkins, Visit Scotland

From Forest Research, Time Series in 2024:

In the period of SNP administration in Scotland, from 2008 to 2024:

Scotland planted 131 460 new trees including 67 000 broadleaves.

England, with 10 times the population and nearly twice the landmass, only planted 40 720, less than a third.

As for Labour-run Wales – 7 800!

Source: https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/tools-and-resources/statistics/time-series/

5 thoughts on “SNP plants nearly 20 times as many new trees as Labour Wales and more than 3 times as many as Conservative England

  1. I am curious about who pays for this contribution towards the UK meeting it’s climate change target.

    I know the Forestry Grant Scheme is administered by Scottish Forestry but does the funding for the scheme come from the Scottish Government, the UK government, or both?

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    1. Since most of the Scottish Government funding still comes from Westminster, then it is The Treasury which is the principal source. But, since the Scottish Government has a fair degree of discretion about how funding is deployed and also has some powers of revenue raising and borrowing it can make the political decisions required.

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      1. Though we must always make clear that no money at all ‘comes from Westminster’ or the English ‘treasury’, the EngGov takes Scotland’s vast revenues and resources and throws a few crumbs back with added contempt and ridicule, kick kick kick.

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    1. You mean they do not want nor intend to ‘see’, and hope nobody else does either! The BritEnglish nationalists are experts at propaganda, they’ve been doing it for a very long time, since the printing press was invented in fact.

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