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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made of an assessment the adequacy of public (a) information and (b) consultation by the Marine Management Organisation in relation to marine licence applications (i) MLA/2023/00307 and (ii) MLA/20243/00308 in Port Quin Bay and (iii) MLA/2022/00180 in Port Isaac Bay.

The Marine Management Organisation’s (MMO) statutory powers for marine licensing are set out in the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (MCAA). Licensing decisions made by MMO are done so independently of Defra (unless they meet certain criteria which could permit them to be referred to the Defra Secretary of State for determination), therefore, an assessment of these marine licence applications has not been carried out by Defra.

Link to the MMO Framework Document:

MMO framework document - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).