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date	03/12/2020
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Equal Rights Coalition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what discussions she has had with her (a) Commonwealth and (b) other international counterparts on progress towards the founding principles and commitments of the intergovernmental Equal Rights Coalition as a condition of agreeing or maintaining preferential trading relationships with the UK.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	124695
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2020 answer text <p>The Secretary of State continues to engage with a wide range of colleagues on issues across her portfolio. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) is responsible for managing development of the Equal Rights Coalition (ERC). In its role as co-chair of the ERC, the FCDO has conducted extensive engagement on the development of a UK led Five Year ERC Strategy, with both international partners, as well as Commonwealth member states. The Strategy is based on the founding principles and commitments of the ERC, which feature the important role business has to play in advancing LGBT equality.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 124694 question first answered 11/12/2020 13:11:24 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

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registered interest
date	24/01/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Biofuels
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made an assessment of the number of virgin forests that have been affected by biomass production in the past three years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	124695
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>The Department has not made a specific assessment of the number of virgin forests that have been affected by biomass production in the past three years.</p><p> </p><p>However to receive government support for heat and power generation from biomass in the UK, all biomass must comply with the UK’s sustainability criteria, which includes demonstrating that wood is supplied from legal and sustainable sources.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 01/02/2018 11:50:31 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse