Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 69538
Marine Animals: Animal Welfare
Tabled: 21 July 2025
Answered: 1 September 2025
Named DayQuestion
Dr Neil Hudson
Conservative — Epping Forest
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to improve the monitoring of marine mammal strandings.
Answer
Emma HardyThe UK Government funds the UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (CSIP), operating since 1990, it annually reports upon threats facing marine mammals through carrying out post-mortems on stranded animals: CSIP.