Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask His Majesty's Government what meetings or correspondence they have had with firms and trade bodies in the fisheries industry in 2022 about (1) barriers to, and (2) benefits of, deployment of wave and tidal energy.

The Government has not recently corresponded with or met fisheries trade associations on the subject of tidal energy. The Government consulted last year on the draft energy National Policy Statements, which included a provision for tidal energy, and will publish a response in due course.