Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 48743

Forests: Commodities

Tabled: 28 April 2025
Answered: 8 May 2025

Question

Brian Mathew

Liberal DemocratMelksham and Devizes

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the UK Forest Risk Commodities regulations on low-income smallholder farmers in the Global South who are selling into

Answer

Mary Creagh
We recognise that action to prevent UK consumption of forest risk commodities driving deforestation should minimise the impacts on low-income smallholder farmers in the Global South.We will set out our approach to addressing deforestation in the UK’s supp...

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