Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 79
Deep Sea Mining
Tabled: 17 July 2024
Answered: 26 July 2024
Question
Jim Shannon
Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to prevent deep sea mining.
Answer
Anneliese DoddsThis Government supports a moratorium on the granting of exploitation licences for deep sea mining projects by the International Seabed Authority (ISA). The UK recognises the impacts of deep sea mining are not fully understood and supports a moratorium o...
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