| Heading: |
Economic Growth: Forests |
| Question ID: |
1793066 |
| UIN: |
44865 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-07 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5353 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Anna Gelderd
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Anna Gelderd
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of the level of global deforestation on economic growth in the UK in the next five years. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-30 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1579 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Mary Creagh
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| Answering Member handle: |
marycreagh_
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@marycreagh_
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| Answer text: |
The Government has no plans to assess how global deforestation specifically will affect the UK’s economic growth over the next five years. However, economic growth will be considered along with other factors in shaping our policy on deforestation. We are ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |