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 received increased reports of malnourished marine mammals along the North Sea coast since July 2022.

Causes of death of stranded marine mammals are monitored and investigated through the Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (CSIP) and Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme (SMASS).

We have not received any reports which suggest an increase in malnourished marine mammals since July 2021. Strandings will continue to be monitored and investigated through the CSIP and SMASS. Annual reports are published and available publicly.