Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 6 May 2025.
Lillian Jones
Labour, Kilmarnock and Loudoun
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has had discussions with Cabinet colleagues on the potential impact of differences between the EU Deforestation Regulation and UK timber regulations on timber businesses in the UK.
Mary Creagh
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The Secretary of State has regular discussions with Cabinet colleagues on a range of issues.
The UK and the EU share the common commitment to tackling deforestation in supply chains. 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.
Yes2 people think so
No1 person thinks not
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