| Heading: |
Marine Protected Areas: Fishing Vessels |
| Question ID: |
1815257 |
| UIN: |
HL8682 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-23 |
| Asking Member ID: |
497 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lord Blencathra
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Lord Blencathra
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to their consultation on banning bottom trawling in marine protected areas (MPAs), whether the 42 sites currently under consultation are in addition to the MPAs in which bottom trawling is already banned. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-03 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4395 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Hayman of Ullock
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| Answering Member handle: |
suehayman1
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@suehayman1
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| Answer text: |
The proposed restrictions to bottom trawling in the consultation are in addition to those currently in place in the Marine Protected Areas. The level of protection from bottom trawling varies in each site, with some sites currently having no protection an... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |