Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 31 October 2025.
Fabian Hamilton
Labour, Leeds North East
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she will introduce secondary legislation under the Environment Act 2021 for due diligence rules for forest-risk commodities.
Mary Creagh
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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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