SUMMARY and INDEX of Briefing Note
Date: 10th Jan 2013
This briefing note is attached to the Forest Campaigns Network open Letter to DEFRA ministers Owen Paterson and David Heath and to Chancellor George Osborne
This briefing note looks at the spending review cuts and the very real impact that they are already having on our public forests and the consequences if cuts continue to be imposed. It looks at the very small amount of money needed as a taxpayer contribution to funding the running of the PFE and puts this into the context of total government public sector spending and provides for comparison some examples of spending from other government departments and bodies. It examines these issues under the following headings:
1. Cuts: Spending reviews so far and to come
2. Cuts: Scale and impact
3. Impact of the cuts on our public forest estate on services/public benefits
• Loss of facilities
• Loss of maintenance
• Loss of events and activities
• Activities outsourced
• Impact of loss of FC staff in the forests from cuts in their numbers and from the recent restructuring which means that the remaining staff cover much larger areas – crime, other problems, neglect, disease, impact on wildlife, loss of interaction with public
• Knock-on effect on other organisations
• Impact in general terms4. Scale of taxpayer funding contribution needed to run PFE
• Independent forestry panel report recommendations
• What this level of funding means for taxpayers; value for money5. Comparison with other government spending: totals, examples
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