Questions Without Notice from the Party Leaders

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:49 pm on 12 February 2019.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 1:49, 12 February 2019

Well, Llywydd, I am aware that we've not reached the targets that we intend for woodland and for tree planting here in Wales, and that is something that I personally am very committed to addressing. In the campaign that was held during the autumn for the leadership of my party, I put forward a proposal for a new national forest for Wales. That's an idea I'm very committed to making sure that we take forward during the rest of this Assembly term and beyond in order to be able to make sure that the woodland of Wales is able to make its contribution both to climate change and decarbonisation and to the other things that ideas of that sort can bring to those parts of Wales whose future are most likely to be affected by Brexit.