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

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potential economic impact of the timing of UK forest risk commodity regulations on regulatory divergence between Great Britain and Northern Ireland following the application of Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 in Northern Ireland.

This Government announced the proposed UK approach to deforestation regulations in June and will consult on the approach in Great Britain later this year. To protect the UK internal market, the proposed Great Britain policy aims to operate alongside the EUDR. This Government also aims to achieve due diligence consistency for businesses working in both the UK internal market and EU single market.