Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has plans to bring forward legislative proposals on tackling deforestation in supply chains.

We have put into statute world-leading due diligence legislation, through the Environment Act, to help tackle illegal deforestation in UK supply chains.

Between December 2021 and March 2022, we ran a consultation to seek views on the detail of regulations that will implement the Environment Act provisions and published a summary of responses to this consultation on 1st June 2022.

We are committed to implementing due diligence provisions at the earliest opportunity, through secondary legislation.