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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 12 December 2016 to Question 56672, on salmon: conservation, what reporting mechanisms the Environment Agency has in place to ensure that regular updates on progress are made.

Annex 1 of the ‘Salmon Five Point Approach – restoring salmon in England’ sets out a series of commitments and delivery timescales.

All of the multi-agency groups report internally to the Environment Agency as agreed in their individual project plans. In addition, at the end of this year, the Environment Agency plans to produce an update on the total progress made on the Five Point Approach.