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Forests: Regulation

Asked by Gareth SnellLabour (Co-op)Department for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 11 November 2024UIN 12443

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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the delay to the implementation of the European Union Deforestation Regulation; and what his planned timet

Answered by Mary Creagh

We 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.

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