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 DemocratSouth 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 Eagle
The 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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