Question follow-through · 49337
Marine Environment: Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has to reduce the time taken for the licensing process for marine restoration projects.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 30 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 May 2025
- Answer
- 7 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has to reduce the time taken for the licensing process for marine restoration projects.
6 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 May 2025
Answer published
Defra officials are working with arms-length bodies to understand whether improvements could be made to the marine licensing regime when considering applications for habitat restoration. This includes reviewing the time taken to grant licences for marine ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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