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DateDebate & contributionWords
2 Apr 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551)

Thank you.

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2 Apr 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551)

On the back of that, to show our commitment to it even though it has not been ratified by Parliament yet, we know that DEFRA has already commissioned research to have a look at potential area-based management tools for the future, including marine protected areas. We are already looking at getting ahead so that, when i

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2 Apr 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551)

Yes. I should mention for the record that of course this is near my constituency as well, so there is also a constituency issue here. I have to say the MCA did a great job. It immediately began retrieval, which is happening at beaches, and encouraged the public not to go and retrieve some of it themselves because we ar

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2 Apr 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551)

I am happy to.

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2 Apr 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551)

So that I have not conflated the two things, on BBNJ, of course, we have the research going, so—

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2 Apr 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551)

You are doing me a linking—

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2 Apr 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551)

I totally understand. To give the overarching response, I want to get this right. I want to make sure that we have this right. Stage 3 byelaws cover 43 MPAs. That is 13% of English waters—almost three times the size of the previous stage when we were looking at the byelaws. Almost half of the UK fishing fleet catches t

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2 Apr 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551)

Absolutely. As you know, clean energy power is a huge mission of the Government and an important priority. I have been talking to some of the offshore wind industry about what is holding up consent, what is holding up planning and why they have not been able to go on with projects as quickly as they could under the pre

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2 Apr 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551)

It is devolved, so I was completely respectful of—

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2 Apr 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551)

I am aware of how it went, but I want to say for the record that I respect that it is a devolved decision, and it is a devolved Government. Of course, you are looking at where you are putting things. From my understanding of that situation—and I respect you are closer to it than I am—one important thing is talking to t

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2 Apr 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551)

One hundred per cent.

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2 Apr 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551)

Thank you.

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2 Apr 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551)

On the back of that, to show our commitment to it even though it has not been ratified by Parliament yet, we know that DEFRA has already commissioned research to have a look at potential area-based management tools for the future, including marine protected areas. We are already looking at getting ahead so that, when i

92
2 Apr 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551)

Yes. I should mention for the record that of course this is near my constituency as well, so there is also a constituency issue here. I have to say the MCA did a great job. It immediately began retrieval, which is happening at beaches, and encouraged the public not to go and retrieve some of it themselves because we ar

267
2 Apr 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551)

I am happy to.

4
2 Apr 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551)

So that I have not conflated the two things, on BBNJ, of course, we have the research going, so—

19
2 Apr 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551)

You are doing me a linking—

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2 Apr 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551)

I totally understand. To give the overarching response, I want to get this right. I want to make sure that we have this right. Stage 3 byelaws cover 43 MPAs. That is 13% of English waters—almost three times the size of the previous stage when we were looking at the byelaws. Almost half of the UK fishing fleet catches t

199
2 Apr 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551)

Absolutely. As you know, clean energy power is a huge mission of the Government and an important priority. I have been talking to some of the offshore wind industry about what is holding up consent, what is holding up planning and why they have not been able to go on with projects as quickly as they could under the pre

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2 Apr 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551)

This is the marine spatial prioritisation. We meet The Crown Estate. The Crown Estate of course is responsible for leasing the seabed and determining what goes where. We are having those conversations with different Ministers from different Departments along with The Crown Estate to look at what we are putting where. W

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MethodEach row is one contribution (intervention or speech). Word count from the official text.