Environment Protection: Crime
Lords · Question HL6864 · Tabled 24 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 7 May 2025
Question
Asked by Baroness Whitaker
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to criminalise acts of ecocide.
Answer
Answered by Baroness Hayman of Ullock, 7 May 2025
The UK already has strong regulations in place to protect the environment and contravention of many of these is a criminal offence. These are enforced by regulators who can seek criminal convictions to punish significant and or persistent environmental of...