Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 44865
Economic Growth: Forests
Tabled: 7 April 2025
Answered: 30 April 2025
Question
Anna Gelderd
Labour — South East Cornwall
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of the level of global deforestation on economic growth in the UK in the next five years.
Answer
Mary CreaghThe Government has no plans to assess how global deforestation specifically will affect the UK’s economic growth over the next five years. However, economic growth will be considered along with other factors in shaping our policy on deforestation. We are ...
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