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Environment Protection: Crime

Asked by Euan StainbankLabourDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 17 October 2025UIN 79911

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to make ecocide a criminal offence.

Answered by Mary Creagh

The UK has strong laws in place to protect the environment. Contravention of many of these is a criminal offence. Convictions are sought to punish significant or persistent environmental offending.

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