PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Seas and Oceans: Conferences (9 July 2014)

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what policy statements were announced by the Government at the Our Ocean conference held on 16 and 17 June 2014; and what steps the Government plans to take to implement those proposals.

Asked by:
Kerry McCarthy (Labour)

Sir David King, the Foreign Secretary's Special Representative on Climate Change represented the Government at the Our Ocean conference in Washington. He highlighted the UK's ongoing ocean conservation work, in particular the Marine Protected Areas already designated in the British Indian Ocean Territories and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. No policy statements were announced.

Answered by:
Mark Simmonds (Conservative)
14 July 2014