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Baroness Sheehan (LD)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 2 March 2026

Debate

Forest-Risk Commodities

Contribution

My Lords, the national security assessment, which the Government still refuse to publish in full, has been leaked in full to ITV News. It states that nature loss, including deforestation, is already slowing UK growth and productivity and could leave annual GDP 12% lower by 2030 than it would otherwise have been, making a mockery of the Government’s growth agenda. Will the Minister confirm these figures? When will the Government start taking nature loss as the grave economic threat that it is and get on with urgent job of protecting nature?

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