Marine Management Organisation
(asked on 2nd July 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information his Department holds on the number of hours Natural England has spent providing advice to the Marine Management Organisation on marine licence applications in each of the last five years.
Answered by
Emma Hardy
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The table below shows data from Natural England’s Casework Tracker (CWT) for the number of recorded hours spent providing advice to the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) from 2020-2025. Both calendar and financial year splits are included.
These data include some other types of MMO consultations as well as licenses which will require further analysis that has not been possible in the time available.
Marine MMO Consultations closed per year – Total Hours recorded on CWT:
Financial Year | 2020 - 21 | 2021 - 22 | 2022 - 23 | 2023 - 24 | 2024 - 25 |
Consultations Closed | 588 | 554 | 495 | 467 | 588 |
Total Hours Recorded | 3395 | 3353 | 3345 | 2605 | 3345 |
Calendar Year | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 (first half of year) |
Consultations Closed | 606 | 534 | 525 | 487 | 549 | 282 |
Total Hours Recorded | 3965 | 3325 | 3171 | 3121 | 3069 | 1510 |