AQW 18023/17-22 Written question to the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the total area burnt by wildfires, in each of the last five years.
Asked by Claire Sugden MLA on 27 April 2021
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 27 April 2021
- Answer due by
- 13 May 2021
- Answered
- 7 May 202110 days after tabling
- Priority question
- No
Answer
My Department does not hold this information.
However I can confirm, as I reported in the Assembly on 26 April 2021, that Forest Service staff attended 22 fire incidents in 2020. As a result of those incidents, 70 hectares of forest and over 110 hectares of peatland were burnt.