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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what subscriptions to (a) newspapers, (b) magazines and (c) online journals his Department has paid for in each of the last three financial years.

Answered by Mark Spencer - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

The following is a combined list of subscriptions that the Defra Library and Communications have paid for over the last three financial years. Some are in print and some are online. Not everything on the list was purchased in all three years – subscriptions change on demand and to reflect usage. Information on any subscriptions from other team budgets is not held centrally and to obtain it would incur disproportionate costs.

Defra Library purchases magazines and journals for Defra, Animal and Plant Health Agency and Natural England staff to support them in their role. The Communications team purchases newspapers for monitoring the media coverage of issues in Defra’s remit.

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

To ask His Majesty's Government how many successful prosecutions by the Environment Agency there were for fishing without a licence in England in (1) 2019, (2) 2020, (3) 2021, (4) 2022, and (5) 2023.

Answered by Lord Douglas-Miller - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

In addition to prosecution, the Environment Agency will use other enforcement outcomes that include formal cautions, warning letters and issuing advice and guidance. The table below provides the numbers of these used alongside prosecutions between 2019 to 2023.

The total number of successful prosecutions is higher (+498) than the table above if you include fisheries byelaw offences such as fishing in the close season. Please see the table below for all prosecutions and enforcement actions.

Found: non-government organisations, water companies, local authorities, government agencies, landowners, angling

Found: Local angling associations are keen that evidence is developed to ensure that both the fish population

Found: carries out enforcement work all year round and is supported by partners including the police and the Angling

Found: these penalties will act as a deterrent to anyone who is thinking of breaking the laws and byelaws for angling

Found: without a licence on the same day and location Fisheries enforcement officers clamp down on illegal angling

Found: carries out enforcement work all year round and is supported by partners including the police and the Angling

Found: period, riverbanks will see a return of Operation Clampdown, which sees Environment Agency officers and Angling

Found: collaboration activities, and with Lyme Bay stakeholders (including commercial fishers and a recreational angling

Found: and engine when parking Safety precautions when parking on hills and uneven surfaces (e.g. low gear, angling

Found: Using automatic hooking devices in angling: RPS 293

Found: Angling Trust 3. Argaty Red Kites 4. Argyll District Salmon Fishery Board 5.

Found: • projects that promote recreational angling as a low carbon, nature -based activity that increases

Found: , 97% of the rod caught salmon were returned to the water , showing the continued effort from the angling

Found: Protection Agency (SEPA), NatureScot, Scottish Forestry, Scottish Environment Link, Crown Estate Scotland, Angling

Found: Sunart to the Sound of Jura MPA originated from a third-party proposal submitted by the Scottish Sea Angling