Environment Protection: Crime
Commons · Question 79911 · Tabled 10 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 17 Oct 2025
Question
Asked by Euan Stainbank
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to make ecocide a criminal offence.
Answer
Answered by Mary Creagh, 17 Oct 2025
The UK has strong laws in place to protect the environment. Contravention of many of these is a criminal offence. Convictions are sought to punish significant or persistent environmental offending.