PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Marine Protected Areas: Fishing Vessels (14 September 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if the Government will use its new powers under the Fisheries Act 2020 to restrict the fishing licences of supertrawlers and bottom trawlers and prevent them from operating in offshore UK Marine Protected Areas.

Asked by:
Marsha De Cordova (Labour)

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion, on 19 July 2021, PQ UIN 33200.

Answered by:
Rebecca Pow (Conservative)
22 September 2021