Question follow-through · 69539
Marine Animals: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to improve the monitoring of marine mammal bycatch incidents.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 21 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 1 Sept 2025 · 42 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 4 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
21 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to improve the monitoring of marine mammal bycatch incidents.
1 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Sept 2025
Answer published
The UK Government funds a comprehensive bycatch monitoring programme which provides essential observer data on incidents of sensitive species bycatch, including marine mammals. This programme reports annually on estimated rates of sensitive species bycatc...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Slaughterhouses: Finance
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Pets: Dogs
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help support responsible dog ownership.
Cats: Animal Breeding
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help tackle the designer breeding of (a) brachycephalic cats, (b) bully cats, (c) hybrid cats and (d) other cats.
Cats: Tagging
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Food: Inflation
10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of recent trends in the level of inflation for food and drink on food security.