Question follow-through · 27720
Marine Environment: Environment Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to protect blue carbon habitats from human activities.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 30 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 5 Feb 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to protect blue carbon habitats from human activities.
3 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Feb 2025
Answer published
In England, we have established a comprehensive network of 181 Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), which cover the majority of our saltmarsh and seagrass habitats. While blue carbon habitats may not always be an explicitly designated feature, MPA protection ma...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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