Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 60239

Marine Protected Areas

Tabled: 16 June 2025
Answered: 23 June 2025

Question

Charlie Dewhirst

Conservative — Bridlington and The Wolds

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has a target for the (a) number and (b) combined area of Marine Protected Areas.

Answer

Emma Hardy
The UK is committed to ensuring that by 2030 at least 30 per cent of marine and coastal areas, especially areas of particular importance for biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services, are effectively conserved and managed through ecologically repr...
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