Question follow-through · 49577
Forests: Commodities
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 29 April 2025 to Question 46277 on Forests: Commodities, what his planned timetable is to set out plans for tackling deforestation.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 30 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 May 2025
- Answer
- 9 May 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 29 April 2025 to Question 46277 on Forests: Commodities, what his planned timetable is to set out plans for tackling deforestation.
6 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 May 2025
Answer published
The Government recognises 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.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Beaches: Protection
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Water Companies
8 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many meetings officials in his Department have held with (a) investor groups, (b) asset managers and (c) shareholder representatives with interests in UK water companies since July
Water Companies: Insolvency
8 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to ensure that costs incurred by the Government for water companies entering special administration are recovered from that company's creditors.
Water Companies: Licensing
8 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will review the conditions on which water companies' licences are renewed where there is repeated (a) pollution or (b) non-compliance.
Water Companies: Regulation
8 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of Ofwat's powers to enforce compliance with (a) environmental and (b) financial regulations by water companies.
Water Companies: Environment Protection
8 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will introduce a statutory obligation for water companies in special measures to prioritise environmental repair in their restructuring plans.
Water Companies
8 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will require additional public reporting from water companies placed into (a) special measures or (b) special administration.
Sewers
14 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made on enforcing the mandatory adoption of sustainable drainage schemes (SuDS) through Schedule 3 of the Flood and Water Management Act 2010.
Caravans: Devon
14 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help reduce the number of abandoned caravans in Devon.
Rivers: Pollution Control
16 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle agricultural pollution in rivers; and if he will take steps to launch a review into this issue.
Biodiversity
21 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to introduce legally binding biodiversity targets beyond those in the Environment Act 2021.
Agriculture: Climate Change
21 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 4 March 2025 to Question 33098 on Agriculture: Climate Change, what recent discussions he has had with the (a) Joint Nature Conservation Committee, (b) Commit