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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to align the (a) scope and (b) implementation of the UK Deforestation Regulation (UKDR) with the European Union Deforestation Regulation; and when he plans to publish the (i) scope and (ii) timeline for UKDR compliance.

We recognise 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.