Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the level of need to urgently implement the Forest Risk Commodities regulation.

and reverse deforestation and forest degradation by 2030 while supporting sustainable development. The UK helped lay the foundation for the 2030 forest commitment through our own COP26 Presidency, including by rallying over 140 partners behind the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use.

We recognise the urgency of taking action to ensure that UK consumption of forest risk commodities is not driving deforestation and are working across government to determine the most effective way to reduce the impact of the UK’s consumption of forest risk commodities on deforestation.

We will set out our approach to addressing this in due course.