Written Question·Attorney General·UIN 27046

Sandeels: Conservation

Tabled: 28 January 2025
Answered: 5 February 2025

Question

Joe Robertson

Conservative — Isle of Wight East

To ask the Solicitor General, what assessment she has made of the likely outcome of the arbitration on the sandeel fishing ban; and what steps she is taking to prepare for an unfavourable outcome.

Answer

Lucy Rigby
Paragraph 21.27 of Erskine May states:“By long-standing convention, observed by successive Governments, the fact of, and substance of advice from, the law officers of the Crown is not disclosed outside government. This convention is referred to in paragra...
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