Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 13 November 2025.
Charlotte Cane
Liberal Democrat, Ely and East Cambridgeshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 4 November 2025 to Question 85516 on Marine Protected Areas: Bottom Trawling, when she plans to publish (a) the summary of that consultation and (b) her Department's response.
Angela Eagle
The Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
A consultation on the latest round of proposed fisheries byelaws, which proposes further restrictions on bottom trawling, closed on 29 September. The Marine Management Organisation is now carefully considering all responses received, and decisions will be made in due course.
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