Forests: Commodities
Commons · Question 36653 · Tabled 10 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Sarah Champion
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to tackle the use of products created through illegal deforestation in supply chains.
Answer
Answered by Mary Creagh, 17 Mar 2025
We recognise the need to take action to ensure that UK consumption of forest risk commodities is not driving deforestation, and we will set out our approach to addressing this in due course.