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

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Hayman of Ullock on 18 March (HL15295) and the Marine Management Organisation’s announcement on 16 September that it is preparing to resume enforcement of Inshore Vessel Monitoring Systems (I-VMS) compliance for English fishing vessels under 12 metres, when they expect to lay the statutory instrument to extend the I-VMS requirement to all UK and non-UK fishing vessels under 12 metres operating in English waters.

The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has resumed the roll-out of the IVMS programme. This Government intends to lay the SI once the roll-out is complete and the MMO is satisfied devices are operating correctly.