Peatlands: Environment Protection

Summary

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in terms of protecting deep peat, what estimate has her Department made of i) the carbon saved by its 2025 restrictions on winter burning and ii) the carbon released by wildfires since

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1. 9 October 2026

   Written question

   To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in terms of protecting deep peat, what estimate has her Department made of i) the carbon saved by its 2025 restrictions on winter burning and ii) the carbon released by wildfires since

   Source: Commons

2. 13 October 2026

   Answer

   The Government is committed to restoring 280,000 hectares of peatland by 2050. Figures for the amount of carbon released by wildfires on peat, or the amount of carbon saved by the Heather and Grass Burning Regulations, are not available.

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