Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 109940

Ocean Community Empowerment and Nature Grants Programme

Tabled: 30 January 2026

Answered: 5 February 2026

Question

James McMurdock

Independent — South Basildon and East Thurrock

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her Department’s press release entitled UK leads global efforts to help communities save the ocean and beat poverty, published on 26 January 2026, what assessment her

Answer

Mary Creagh

Marine conservation delivers a wide range of benefits. These include reducing global biodiversity loss and preventing ecosystem collapse, systems that are vital for global security and economic growth in the UK and in developing countries. Some of the wor...

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