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Christopher Leslie, a Cabinet Office Minister, said that he had been wrong to describe the wood as being from certified and sustainable sources, a claim also made by the Prime Minister.
Two years ago, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair had pledged to source all government timber from "legal and sustainable" sources. In April, following lengthy investigation of the international trade in timber from threatened Central and West African rainforests into the UK, Greenpeace activists exposed the UK Government's use of more than
