Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 69538

Marine Animals: Animal Welfare

Tabled: 21 July 2025
Answered: 1 September 2025
Named Day

Question

Dr Neil Hudson

ConservativeEpping 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 Hardy
The 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.