Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations has he made to his Brazilian counterpart on the (a) continued deforestation of the Amazon rainforest and (b) the effect of that deforestation on UK businesses operating in Brazil.

The UK continues to monitor the situation in the Amazon closely and we regularly raise the environment in our ongoing dialogue with Brazil, including at ministerial level. The UK has dedicated funding to addressing the issue of deforestation in Brazil for almost a decade and is actively supporting efforts in Brazil to tackle deforestation. Since 2012, the UK's International Climate Finance (ICF) has invested £259 million in a number of programmes in Brazil aimed at supporting small landowners to increase their productivity through low-carbon farming, the acceleration of sustainable business in the forest economy, preventing forest fires, and implementing the Forest Code. The UK has committed an additional £100m for 2021-2025. We will continue to work with Brazil to ensure that supply chains are sustainable and open.