Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 12444
Forests: Regulation
Tabled: 4 November 2024
Answered: 11 November 2024
Question
Gareth Snell
Labour (Co-op) — Stoke-on-Trent Central
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to align the (a) scope and (b) implementation of the UK Deforestation Regulation (UKDR) with the European Union Deforestation Regulation; and when he plans to publish
Answer
Mary CreaghWe recognise the need to take action to ensure that UK consumption of forest risk commodities is not driving deforestation and we will set out our approach to addressing this in due course.