Forests: Commodities
Commons · Question 59823 · Tabled 13 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 23 Jun 2025
Question
Asked by Martin Wrigley
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to bring into force paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 17 of the Environment Act 2021 on a due diligence regime for forest risk commodities in advance of t
Answer
Answered by Mary Creagh, 23 Jun 2025
We recognise the urgency of taking action to ensure that UK consumption of forest risk commodities is not driving deforestation. The Government will set out its approach to addressing UK consumption of forest risk commodities in due course.