PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Correspondence (25 July 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to respond to the letter from the UN Special Rapporteur on environmental defenders under the Aarhus Convention of 12 March 2024.

Asked by:
Ms Stella Creasy (Labour)

The UK welcomed the creation of the Special Rapporteur on environmental defenders under the Aarhus Convention.

The Government is considering the issues raised in the Special Rapporteur's two recent letters, in the context of the UK's obligations under the Aarhus Convention.

We will respond in due course.

Answered by:
Mary Creagh (Labour)
30 July 2024