Asked by: Baroness Sugg (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask His Majesty's Government when they plan to publish their response to the Marine Protected Areas Stage 3 Consultation that closed on 29 September 2025.
Answered by Baroness Hayman of Ullock - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The consultation on the latest round of proposed byelaws to introduce restrictions on bottom trawling in 41 MPAs resulted in a very large number of responses being received. The Marine Management Organisation is now carefully considering those responses, and decisions will be made in due course.
Asked by: Baroness Sugg (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask His Majesty's Government what progress they have made on banning bottom trawling in Marine Protected Areas.
Answered by Baroness Hayman of Ullock - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The consultation on the latest round of proposed byelaws to introduce restrictions on bottom trawling in 41 MPAs resulted in a very large number of responses being received. The Marine Management Organisation is now carefully considering those responses, and decisions will be made in due course.