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Forests: Commodities

Asked by Kate OsamorLabour (Co-op)Department for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 11 November 2025UIN 87352

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to implement provisions in the Environment Act 2021 to impose due diligence regulations for forest risk commodities.

Answered by Mary Creagh

The Government recognises the urgency of taking action to ensure that UK consumption of forest risk commodities is not driving deforestation. The Government is actively considering the best regulatory approach to address deforestation in UK supply chains; we will set out this approach in due course.

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