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    2019 – Grant schemes

     Private sector woodland in Great Britain is supported by a range of grants for creating new woodland and managing existing woodland. The Woodland Grant Scheme (WGS) was introduced in 1988, at the same time as tax relief was phased out. In Scotland, WGS was replaced by the Scottish Forestry Grant Scheme (SFGS) in 2003, by […]
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    2019 – Finance & Prices

     Introduction This chapter contains statistics on: timber prices; gross value added (GVA); Government expenditure on forestry; and grant schemes. Estimates for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are included, where possible, in addition to UK or GB totals. Further information on the data sources and methodology used to compile the figures is provided in the Sources chapter. Most of the statistics presented […]
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    2019 – Gross value added

     Gross value added (GVA) measures the contribution to the economy of each individual producer, industry or sector in the United Kingdom. It is the difference between the value of outputs and the value of intermediate consumption, so mainly comprises employment costs and profits. The Annual Business Survey (ABS) carried out by the Office for National Statistics […]
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    2019 – VAT and/or PAYE registered businesses

     Table 7.5 shows the number of VAT and/or PAYE registered businesses classified under forestry and primary wood processing. The headings shown potentially include businesses not traditionally regarded as forestry or primary wood processing, and some businesses traditionally included in forestry and primary wood processing are excluded as they are classified to other headings of the […]
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    2019 – Timber prices

     Timber Price Indices are based on sales of softwood (conifers) by Forestry England, Forestry and Land Scotland and Natural Resources Wales and are released every 6 months.  The Coniferous Standing Sales Price Index monitors changes in the average price received per cubic metre for timber that Forestry England/ Forestry and Land Scotland/ Natural Resources Wales sold […]
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    2019 – Establishments in the primary wood processing industries

     Table 7.4 shows the number of primary wood processors, according to the sampling frames used for Forest Research surveys of establishments using UK timber. The figures in Table 7.4 do not correspond with the VAT and PAYE registration information given in Table 7.5.  The figures here count establishments (sites) rather than businesses and include those that do not […]
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    2019 – Hardwood deliveries

     There was a total of 0.8 million green tonnes of UK hardwood deliveries in 2018 (Table 2.6). The majority of UK hardwood deliveries (84% in 2018) were used for woodfuel. Table 2.6 Deliveries of UK-grown hardwood, 2009-2018 Year Sawmills Pulp mills Wood-based panels Woodfuel1 Other2 Total thousand green tonnes       2009 76 0 1 400 59 536 2010 75 0 1 400 59 535 2011 81 0 1 400 59 541 2012 75 0 2 400 57 534 2013 74 0 0 400 58 532 2014 77 0 0 400 60 537 2015 76 0 0 400 91 566 2016 75 0 0 400 122 597 2017 66 0 0 600 71 738 2018 67 0 1 700 66 834 Source: industry surveys, industry associations. Notes: 1.  Figures are based on processing industries’ purchases of hardwood grown in […]
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    Employment in primary wood processing

     Information on employment in primary wood processing is obtained annually via the sources used to collect data on UK-grown timber (presented in Chapter 2). There was estimated to be a total of 7.7 thousand full time equivalent staff employed by primary wood processors in the UK in 2018 (Table 7.2), a 2% decrease from the total for […]
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    2019 – Employment: Annual Business Survey (ABS)

     The Annual Business Survey (ABS), carried out by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), includes statistics on employment broken down by Standard Industrial Classification (SIC 2007). In wood processing, SIC 16 (wood products) and SIC 17 (pulp, paper and paper products) have a much wider scope than the data on employment in primary wood processing (Table […]
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    2019 – Northern Ireland Forest Service day visitors

     Information on visitors to Forest Service sites in Northern Ireland is provided by the Forest Service and relates only to sites where an admission charge is made. In Northern Ireland in 2018-19, 532 thousand people visited those Forest Service sites where an admission charge was made (Table 6.7).  This represented a 5% increase from the previous year, […]
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    2019 – Scotland All Forests surveys

     All Forests surveying in Scotland has been undertaken on two occasions. The first All Forests Survey in Scotland was carried out across a three-year period from June 2004 to June 2007, with over 5,000 hours of fieldwork undertaken over 1,158 days, achieving almost 2,700 face to face interviews. The study estimated that around 8.2 million […]
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    2019 – Visits to woodland – on-site surveys

     The previous section provided information on visits to all woodlands (regardless of ownership), based on data from household surveys.  This section provides information on visits to Forestry England/ Forestry and Land Scotland/ Natural Resources Wales/ Forest Service woodland only, based on data from on-site surveys and administrative sources. The information provided in this section covers: Visits to […]