§ Mr. CorbynTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will take steps to ensure that timber imported into the United Kingdom has not been logged from tribal people's land without their free and informed consent.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydExcept as provided for under the convention on international trade in endangered species, the United Kingdom does not restrict timber imports and has no plans to do so. Questions of land and forest ownership rights are primarily the responsibility of the Governments of the countries where the forest lie. We are prepared to consider requests from developing countries for aid in forest resource conservation and management.