Asked by: Martin Wrigley (Liberal Democrat - Newton Abbot)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many marine licenses were determined by the Marine Management Organisation for (a) removal of abandoned vessels, (b) firework displays, (c) maintenance of bridges or cantilevered structures, (d) installation of eco moorings and (e) coastal and flood defence works in each of the last five years for which data is available.
Answered by Emma Hardy - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Sub-part | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
(a) Removal of abandoned vessels | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
(b) firework displays | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
(c) maintenance of bridges or cantilevered structures | 14 | 13 | 24 | 22 | 22 | 10 |
(d) installation of eco moorings | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
(e) coastal and flood defence works in each of the last five years for which data is available | 19 | 23 | 48 | 32 | 31 | 16 |
Asked by: Martin Wrigley (Liberal Democrat - Newton Abbot)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much income the Marine Management Organisation have received from charges for (a) harbour revision orders and (b) harbour empowerment order applications in each of the last five years for which data is available.
Answered by Emma Hardy - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Sub-part | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 | Total |
(a) harbour revision order | 1,447.75 | 1,208.75 | 1,576.00 | 1,515.75 | 2,326.50 | 8,074.75 |
(b) harbour empowerment order | 50.00 | 59.25 | 208.50 | 185.00 | 4.25 | 507.00 * |
Total | 1,497.75 | 1,268.00 | 1,784.50 | 1,700.75 | 2,330.75 | 8,074.75 |
(a) harbour revision order | £24,000.00 | £20,000.00 | £44,000.00 | £74,319.00 | £46,737.00 | £209,056.00 |
(b) harbour empowerment order | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0 * |
Total | 24,000.00 | 20,000.00 | 44,000.00 | 74,319.00 | 46,737.00 | 209,056.00 |
(a) Band 2 | 4,309.25 | 4,590.50 | 5,114.50 | 4,548.25 | 5,211.75 | 23,774.25 |
(b) Band 3 | 9,624.50 | 11,339.00 | 10,264.00 | 9,861.25 | 13,275.50 | 54,364.25 |
Total | 13,933.75 | 15,929.50 | 15,378.50 | 14,409.50 | 18,487.25 | 78,138.50 |
* hours for the empowerment order, the fee was received in 2019 and was £4000.
Asked by: Martin Wrigley (Liberal Democrat - Newton Abbot)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many hours the Marine Management Organisation has spent determining (a) Band 2 and (b) Band 3 marine licence applications in each of the last five years for which data is available.
Answered by Emma Hardy - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Sub-part | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 | Total |
(a) harbour revision order | 1,447.75 | 1,208.75 | 1,576.00 | 1,515.75 | 2,326.50 | 8,074.75 |
(b) harbour empowerment order | 50.00 | 59.25 | 208.50 | 185.00 | 4.25 | 507.00 * |
Total | 1,497.75 | 1,268.00 | 1,784.50 | 1,700.75 | 2,330.75 | 8,074.75 |
(a) harbour revision order | £24,000.00 | £20,000.00 | £44,000.00 | £74,319.00 | £46,737.00 | £209,056.00 |
(b) harbour empowerment order | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0 * |
Total | 24,000.00 | 20,000.00 | 44,000.00 | 74,319.00 | 46,737.00 | 209,056.00 |
(a) Band 2 | 4,309.25 | 4,590.50 | 5,114.50 | 4,548.25 | 5,211.75 | 23,774.25 |
(b) Band 3 | 9,624.50 | 11,339.00 | 10,264.00 | 9,861.25 | 13,275.50 | 54,364.25 |
Total | 13,933.75 | 15,929.50 | 15,378.50 | 14,409.50 | 18,487.25 | 78,138.50 |
* hours for the empowerment order, the fee was received in 2019 and was £4000.
Asked by: Martin Wrigley (Liberal Democrat - Newton Abbot)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many hours the Marine Management Organisation have spent processing (a) harbour revision orders and (b) harbour empowerment orders in each of the last five years for which data is available.
Answered by Emma Hardy - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Sub-part | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 | Total |
(a) harbour revision order | 1,447.75 | 1,208.75 | 1,576.00 | 1,515.75 | 2,326.50 | 8,074.75 |
(b) harbour empowerment order | 50.00 | 59.25 | 208.50 | 185.00 | 4.25 | 507.00 * |
Total | 1,497.75 | 1,268.00 | 1,784.50 | 1,700.75 | 2,330.75 | 8,074.75 |
(a) harbour revision order | £24,000.00 | £20,000.00 | £44,000.00 | £74,319.00 | £46,737.00 | £209,056.00 |
(b) harbour empowerment order | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0 * |
Total | 24,000.00 | 20,000.00 | 44,000.00 | 74,319.00 | 46,737.00 | 209,056.00 |
(a) Band 2 | 4,309.25 | 4,590.50 | 5,114.50 | 4,548.25 | 5,211.75 | 23,774.25 |
(b) Band 3 | 9,624.50 | 11,339.00 | 10,264.00 | 9,861.25 | 13,275.50 | 54,364.25 |
Total | 13,933.75 | 15,929.50 | 15,378.50 | 14,409.50 | 18,487.25 | 78,138.50 |
* hours for the empowerment order, the fee was received in 2019 and was £4000.
Asked by: Martin Wrigley (Liberal Democrat - Newton Abbot)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information his Department holds on the number of hours the Environment Agency has spent providing advice to the Marine Management Organisation on marine licence applications in each of the last five years.
Answered by Emma Hardy - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The Environment Agency (EA) uses Oracle Time and Labour (OTL) compliance recording to record against their various workstreams. There are many different OTL codes that record the type of advice provided to the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) for marine licence advice, from pre-planning advice to advice on significant infrastructure.
The table below shows the number of recorded OTL hours that the EA have spent providing all types of marine licence advice to the MMO from 2020-2025
Year | Hours recorded |
2020-21 | 1359 |
2021-22 | 1103 |
2022-23 | 1150 |
2023-24 | 846 |
2024-25 | 1094.5 |
Asked by: Martin Wrigley (Liberal Democrat - Newton Abbot)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much the Environment Agency has spent on (a) mitigation and (b) compensation for flood defence projects in each of the last three years.
Answered by Emma Hardy - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The table below shows the amount that the Environment Agency has spent on compensation payments in financial years 2023-24 and 2022-23. This data is based on costs incurred that were classified within transactional data as compensation payments, so may not be fully complete. To establish how much of these costs have been incurred through flood defence projects would fall into disproportionate costs. Data for 2024-25 is not available.
Financial year | £ |
2023-24 | 947,159.61 |
2022-23 | 2,158,643.80 |
Asked by: Martin Wrigley (Liberal Democrat - Newton Abbot)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information his Department holds on the number of hours Natural England has spent providing advice to the Marine Management Organisation on marine licence applications in each of the last five years.
Answered by Emma Hardy - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The table below shows data from Natural England’s Casework Tracker (CWT) for the number of recorded hours spent providing advice to the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) from 2020-2025. Both calendar and financial year splits are included.
These data include some other types of MMO consultations as well as licenses which will require further analysis that has not been possible in the time available.
Marine MMO Consultations closed per year – Total Hours recorded on CWT:
Financial Year | 2020 - 21 | 2021 - 22 | 2022 - 23 | 2023 - 24 | 2024 - 25 |
Consultations Closed | 588 | 554 | 495 | 467 | 588 |
Total Hours Recorded | 3395 | 3353 | 3345 | 2605 | 3345 |
Calendar Year | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 (first half of year) |
Consultations Closed | 606 | 534 | 525 | 487 | 549 | 282 |
Total Hours Recorded | 3965 | 3325 | 3171 | 3121 | 3069 | 1510 |
Asked by: Martin Wrigley (Liberal Democrat - Newton Abbot)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much the Environment Agency has spent delivering biodiversity net gain (a) above and (b) below mean high water on projects related to flood defence in the latest period for which data is available.
Answered by Emma Hardy - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The Environment Agency has committed to delivering natural flood management schemes and meeting statutory requirements on habitat creation and biodiversity net gain (BNG), as part of its Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management (FCERM) Programme.
This will leave nature in a measurably better state than before work to deliver flood alleviation schemes commenced, supporting the broader goal of creating more climate-resilient places.
Asked by: Martin Wrigley (Liberal Democrat - Newton Abbot)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to bring into force paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 17 of the Environment Act 2021 on a due diligence regime for forest risk commodities in advance of the COP30 international climate conference in November.
Answered by Mary Creagh - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
We recognise the urgency of taking action to ensure that UK consumption of forest risk commodities is not driving deforestation. The Government will set out its approach to addressing UK consumption of forest risk commodities in due course.
Asked by: Martin Wrigley (Liberal Democrat - Newton Abbot)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 March 2025 to Question 34064 on Export Health Certificates and Pet Travel Scheme, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of regulating the costs of (a) pet passports and (b) Animal Health Certificates for travel between the UK and the EU.
Answered by Daniel Zeichner - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
As announced at the UK-EU Leaders' Summit on 19 May 2025, the UK and EU have agreed to work towards a common Sanitary and Phytosanitary Area. This will mean taking pets on holiday into the EU will be easier and cheaper. Instead of needing an animal health certificate each time you travel, you will be able to get a multiuse pet passport valid for travel to the EU.
We will provide more information on pet passports valid for travel to the EU in due course.
We currently have no plans to regulate the costs of pet passports or Animal Health Certificates. All fees set by veterinary surgeons or veterinary practices are a private matter between individual practices and their clients.