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 3 February 2020 to Question 7676, on Fishing Catches: Computer Software, what volume of data the catch recording app will generate in a year; how the data are hosted; and whether the data from that app will be cross checked with (a) sales notes and (b) other data on the fisheries activity database (i) automatically as part of an integrated system or (ii) manually.

When fully operational, it is expected that the catch recording system will generate data on approximately 200,000 fishing trips per year. This data will be hosted by the Centre for Fisheries, Environment and Aquaculture Science using Microsoft Azure. Data collected will be cross checked with sales notes and other data on the fisheries activity database using both automatic checks and manual checks.