| Heading: |
Environment Protection: Crime |
| Question ID: |
1797157 |
| UIN: |
HL6864 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-24 |
| Asking Member ID: |
2510 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Baroness Whitaker
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Baroness Whitaker
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to criminalise acts of ecocide. |
| Is named day: |
false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-07 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4395 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Hayman of Ullock
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| Answering Member handle: |
suehayman1
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@suehayman1
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| Answer text: |
The UK already has strong regulations in place to protect the environment and contravention of many of these is a criminal offence. These are enforced by regulators who can seek criminal convictions to punish significant and or persistent environmental of... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |