| Heading: |
Forests: Conservation |
| Question ID: |
1814705 |
| UIN: |
61351 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-19 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5040 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Liz Jarvis
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| Asking Member handle: |
lizjarvisuk
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@lizjarvisuk
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of his policies in tackling global deforestation. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-27 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
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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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
We recognise the urgency of taking action to ensure that UK consumption of forest risk commodities is not driving deforestation. Deforestation associated with UK consumption is estimated to have fallen by 55% since 2005, although progress has slowed over ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |