AQW 18023/17-22

Ms Claire Sugden
Independent
East Londonderry

Tabled Date: 27/04/2021
Answered On Date: 07/05/2021
Priority Written: No

Question:
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.

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.