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    2016 – Establishments in the primary wood processing industries

     Table 7.4 shows the number of primary wood processors, according to the sampling frames used for Forestry Commission 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 […]
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    2016 – Health & Safety

     From April 2012, accidents involving absence from work of at least seven days are required to be reported to the Health & Safety Executive (HSE). Prior to this time, reporting was required for absences of at least three days. Accident rates in forestry and wood products have tended to decline in recent years, but are still […]
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    2016 – 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 7.5 thousand full time equivalent staff employed by primary wood processors in the UK in 2015 (Table 7.2), a 1% decrease from the total […]
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    2016 – 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 […]
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    2016 – Employment & Businesses

     Introduction This chapter contains information on: employment in forestry and wood processing; health & safety; and numbers of businesses. All of the statistics presented in this chapter relate to UK 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 in this chapter have been previously […]
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    2016 – Woods for People

     Woods for People The Woods for People project has created a UK-wide provisional inventory of accessible woodland. At present, it does not include woodlands where the only access is on public rights of way. For Scotland, the Land Reform Act gives a right of responsible access to almost all land, but the dataset only includes woods that […]
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    2016 – Public access to woodland

     The Woods for People project (led by the Woodland Trust) has created a UK-wide provisional inventory of accessible woodland. As a result of the information gathered on accessible woodland, the Woodland Trust has undertaken a major analysis of woodland access provision and deficit across the UK. This project, named Space for People, has used the accessible […]
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    2016 – Space for People

     Space for People As a result of the information gathered on accessible woodland, the Woodland Trust has undertaken a major analysis of woodland access provision and deficit across the UK. This project, named “Space for People”, has used the accessible woodland data from the Woods for People project to develop targets for increasing woodland access. The Space […]
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    Northern Ireland Forest Service sites

     Day visitors to Northern Ireland Forest Service sites 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 2015-16, 432 thousand people visited those Forest Service sites where an admission charge was made (Table 6.8). This […]
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    2016 – Public Opinion of Forestry survey – woodland visitors

     Public Opinion of Forestry survey – woodland visitors The Public Opinion of Forestry Survey is carried out every two years and obtains people’s attitudes to forestry and forestry-related issues, including visits to woodland. Copies of reports and detailed data tables are available at www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/infd-5zyl9w. The results shown in Tables 6.5 and 6.6 and Figure 6.1 have been […]
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    Household surveys in Scotland

     Household surveys in Scotland Scotland’s People and Nature Survey (SPANS), which measures and collects details about the Scottish adult population’s participation in outdoor recreation in Scotland, ran from March 2013 until February 2014, with 1,000 adults interviewed in their home each month. The survey replaced the previous Scottish Recreation Survey (ScRS). Further information on SPANS and the […]
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    Household surveys in England

     Household surveys in England In March 2009 fieldwork commenced on the Monitor of Engagement with the Natural Environment (MENE) survey, which includes collecting information on visits to the outdoors in England. Further information on the survey, including copies of annual reports and online data viewers to access more detailed results, is available at www.gov.uk/government/collections/monitor-of-engagement-with-the-natural-environment-survey-purpose-and-results Table 6.2 shows […]