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South East Asia: Rain Forests

Volume 469: debated on Tuesday 11 December 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what recent discussions he has held on measures to end the destruction of tropical forest caused by the expansion of biofuel plantations in South East Asia. (171119)

I have been asked to reply.

My Department has had discussions on this issue, at both ministerial and official level, with the Indonesian and Malaysian Governments, and with other UK Government Departments and industry stakeholders.

The Government are pursuing measures at home, in the EU and internationally to help ensure biofuels are produced sustainably, without the destruction of tropical forests.