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Agenda: 31 October 2024

Published 21 May 2026

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Forestry Commission board of commissioners 938th meeting, Thursday 31 October 2024, 11:00–13:30 in person at Bristol and via MS Teams.

1. Attendees

Sir William Worsley (Chair)
Hilary Allison
Jo Bradwell
Julia Grant
Peter Latham
Ross Murray
Jennie Price
Richard Stanford
Sandy Storrie

Anna Brown
Richard Barker
Julian Evans
Carol Hawkey (item 13)
John Lockhart
James Pendlebury
Derrick Osgood
Chris Quine
Gurch Randhawa
Mike Seddon
James Simpson
Sarah Clancy (minute secretary)

Apologies: Matt Perkins, Chris Simpson, Andrew Stirling

2. Agenda

  1. Introductions and apologies – Sir William Worsley.
  2. Declarations of interest – Sir William Worsley.
  3. Minutes of the commissioners board, 29 July 2024 and matters arising – Sir William Worsley. (5 mins)
  4. Chair’s update (5 mins) – Sir William Worsley.
  5. Forestry Commission finances and spending review update (10 mins) – Derrick Osgood.
  6. Corporate plan discussion (20 mins) – Derrick Osgood.
  7. Ministerial priorities and government missions discussion (30 mins) – Richard Stanford.

Comfort break

12:20 (20 mins)

8. Forestry and Woodland Advisory Committee appointments (10 mins) – Richard Barker.
9. Update on the review of regulators (10 mins) – Anna Brown.
10. Update on proposed legislation to enable renewables generation for Forestry England (15 mins) – Carol Hawkey.
11. Any other business (5 mins) – Sir William Worsley:

  • Gravetye charity
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