Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of trends in the use of antibiotics in the UK fisheries sector in the last five years for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

Over the last five years, the amount of active ingredient of antibiotic sold for use in fish-only has oscillated around an average of 1.5 tonnes and, in 2016, represented less than 0.5% of antibiotics sold for use in animals.