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date	13/10/2022
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Palm Oil
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether it is the Government’s policy to reduce the use of palm oil in UK supply chains.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	63013
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>We are committed to supporting sustainable production, import, and use of palm oil. Oil palm is a very efficient crop, producing more oil per hectare than other vegetable oil crops. Substitution of other oils (for example, soybean, rapeseed, sunflower), which typically require significantly more land to produce, may lead to greater environmental impacts as more land is converted to agricultural use.</p><p> </p><p>We are working closely with industry, including with supermarkets and manufacturers, to support sustainable production and use of palm oil. For example, in 2012, the Government established the UK Roundtable on Sourcing Sustainable Palm Oil, bringing together key British businesses and supporting them to shift to sustainable palm oil supply chains. Latest reports show that 71% of palm oil and palm kernel oil imports into the United Kingdom were certified sustainable in 2020 – up from 16% in 2010. It is not HM Government’s policy to reduce the overall use of palm oil in United Kingdom supply chains.</p><p> </p><p>HM Government is also committed to tackling the use of illegally produced forest risk commodities – agricultural commodities whose production is associated with wide-scale forest loss, which currently include palm oil. We have introduced world-leading due diligence legislation to make it illegal for larger businesses operating in the United Kingdom to use key forest risk commodities produced on land illegally occupied or used. From December 2021 to March 2022, we consulted on which specific commodities we should regulate through initial secondary legislation. This included seeking views on regulating the following shortlist of commodities: cattle, cocoa, coffee, maize, palm oil, rubber, and soy.</p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Scott Mann question first answered 24/10/2022 11:16:35 answering member 4496 label Biography information for Scott Mann
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

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date	03/02/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Aviation: EU Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to ensure that airports continue to meet the requirements of the Birds and Habitats Directives and the Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive during airspace change decision-making processes.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
uin	63013
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2017 answer text <p>Until exit negotiations are concluded, the UK remains a full member of the EU and all the rights and obligations of EU membership remain in force. During this period the Government will continue to negotiate, implement and apply EU legislation. The outcome of those negotiations will determine what arrangements apply in relation to EU legislation in future once the UK has left the EU. Irrespective of our future relationship with the EU we share its goals of ensuring that airspace is modernised to ensure sufficient capacity to accommodate growth in air traffic whilst remaining safe and minimising environmental impacts.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Transport would expect all airports to continue to meet the requirements of the Birds and Habitats Directives and the Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive during airspace change decision-making processes.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 08/02/2017 14:38:37 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard