Environment Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 17 January 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether her Department provides funding towards meeting the cost of operating the UK's fishery patrol vessels.
DEFRA does not provide any direct funding for the Royal Navy's Fisheries Protection Squadron. It does provide grant in aid funding for the Marine Management Organisation, which currently contracts the Royal Navy to provide surface surveillance activities to enforce the common fisheries policy.
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