Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 91570

Fishing Vessels: Licensing

Tabled: 17 November 2025
Answered: 24 November 2025

Question

Pippa Heylings

Liberal DemocratSouth Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to bring forward legislation to formalise the license variation requiring English fishing vessels under 12m to operate iVMS while at sea.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle
A Statutory Instrument is scheduled to be laid once the Marine Management Organisation's rollout of IVMS has concluded.