Question follow-through · 60283
Forests: Commodities
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to encourage UK companies to reduce levels of deforestation caused by overseas supply chains.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 16 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to encourage UK companies to reduce levels of deforestation caused by overseas supply chains.
18 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jun 2025
Answer published
We recognise the urgency of taking action to ensure that UK consumption of forest risk commodities is not driving deforestation. The Government will set out its approach to addressing UK consumption of forest risk commodities in due course.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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