Question follow-through · 94514
Forests: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the UK’s deforestation regulations are fair and workable for smallholder farmers internationally.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 25 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 1 Dec 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
25 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the UK’s deforestation regulations are fair and workable for smallholder farmers internationally.
1 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Government recognises that action to prevent UK consumption of forest risk commodities driving deforestation should minimise the impacts on smallholder farmers. The UK works with smallholder farmers to improve sustainable practices and encourage fores...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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