Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 84396
Fisheries: Quotas
Tabled: 22 October 2025
Answered: 29 October 2025
Question
Pippa Heylings
Liberal Democrat — South Cambridgeshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the fixed quota allocation system for distributing the catch quotas.
Answer
Dame Angela EagleThe Fixed Quota Allocation (FQA) system was introduced in 1999 and is only one of the ways in which quota is allocated. While the UK Government does not routinely conduct formal assessments of the FQA system itself, it continually monitors fish stocks bas...
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