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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has to spend the remaining £6.4 million from the 2014-2020 European Marine and Fisheries Fund.

The current assumption of the UK authorities is that we expect to commit all of the UK’s £243 million allocation of European Maritime and Fisheries Fund budget, with spending continuing to support projects within the Union Priorities as laid out in the Operational Programme.