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Written Question
Norway: Fisheries
Monday 12th December 2016

Asked by: Melanie Onn (Labour - Great Grimsby)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he held discussions on the future of the UK fishing industry with the Norwegian Foreign Minister during his recent visit to the UK.

Answered by Alan Duncan

The Foreign Secretary, my Rt Hon. Friend the Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip (Boris Johnson) and the Norwegian Foreign Minister discussed a range of foreign and bilateral policy issues. The future of the UK fishing industry was not discussed.


Written Question
Seafood: Overseas Trade
Monday 12th December 2016

Asked by: Melanie Onn (Labour - Great Grimsby)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he held discussions on the potential effect of tariffs on the seafood trade between Britain and Norway with the Norwegian Foreign Minister during his recent visit to the UK.

Answered by Alan Duncan

The Foreign Secretary met Børge Brende, the Norwegian Foreign Minister, in London on 5 December. Børge Brende, the Norwegian Foreign Minister, did not raise the subject of fishing, and neither did the Foreign Secretary. Most of their discussion focused on the US election, and Brende’s impression of a what a Trump administration may look like. They also discussed Brexit and the protection the UK’s membership of the EU had provided against the growth of red tape. Brende had a separate meeting with Sir Alan Duncan on a similar range of issues and fishing was not raised.