Question follow-through · 111351
Fisheries: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to encourage young people to enter the fishing industry.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 5 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 10 Feb 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to encourage young people to enter the fishing industry.
9 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Feb 2026
Answer published
Defra has been working with industry to understand how best to support young people into seafood careers. This includes Defra’s UK Seafood Careers Project, co-designed with industry, which has explored the issues and challenges affecting the recruitment a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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