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929338

registered interest
date	22/06/2018
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Antarctic: Marine Protected Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress he has made in establishing the largest marine sanctuaries in the southern oceans; and whether those marine sanctuaries remain one of the primary goals of his Department’s Blue Belt policy.
tabling member constituency	Penistone and Stocksbridge
tabling member printed	Angela Smith
uin	156620
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>The UK is a leading advocate for marine protection across the Southern Ocean. The UK secured agreement for the first Marine Protected Area (MPA) designated by the international Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) and we strongly supported the Ross Sea region MPA, which was agreed in 2016. The UK is a co-proponent for MPA proposals in the Weddell Sea and in East Antarctica, both of which will be presented to the next CCAMLR meeting in October for adoption. We are also playing a leading role in developing an MPA proposal for the Antarctic Peninsula.</p><p>The Blue Belt initiative is primarily focused on British waters around the UK Overseas Territories and we remain committed to protecting 4m square kilometres of UK waters by 2020. South Georgia &amp; the South Sandwich Islands and the British Antarctic Territory both fall within the CCAMLR Convention Area, and the UK therefore works within CCAMLR to underpin protection measures implemented within our own waters.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 02/07/2018 16:06:07 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	1564 label Biography information for Angela Smith

929375

registered interest
date	22/06/2018
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Horses: Databases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans for semi-wild ponies living in areas that are derogated under the Equine Identification Regulations, and which are micro-chipped and identified by an identification document under article 7 of Commission Regulation 504/2008 or article 13 of Commission Implementing Regulation 2015/262, to be included in the central equine database as eligible for slaughter for human consumption; and when he plans to commence that process.
tabling member constituency	Penistone and Stocksbridge
tabling member printed	Angela Smith
uin	156621
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>The Central Equine Database will include details of all equines with UK passports. Work to include those semi-wild ponies who are subsequently issued with UK passports will commence shortly.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 28/06/2018 13:15:32 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1564 label Biography information for Angela Smith

927961

registered interest
date	20/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	British Overseas Territories: Seas and Oceans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what advanced satellite monitoring and drone technologies his Department has made available to support implementation of the Blue Belt policy around the (a) Ascension Islands and (b) British Indian Ocean Territory.
tabling member constituency	Penistone and Stocksbridge
tabling member printed	Angela Smith
uin	155729
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>There are currently no funded programmes relating to satellite monitoring or drone technologies that support the implementation of Blue Belt policy around the Ascension Islands and British Indian Ocean Territory.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 25/06/2018 17:01:05 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	1564 label Biography information for Angela Smith

926974

registered interest
date	19/06/2018
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: Marine Protected Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what proportion of the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands marine protected area is legally designated as a fully no-take area.
tabling member constituency	Penistone and Stocksbridge
tabling member printed	Angela Smith
uin	155231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2018 answer text <p>The South Georgia &amp; the South Sandwich Islands sustainable use MPA, established to deliver defined conservation outcomes, covers 86% of the maritime zone. No commercial fishing licences are granted across the remaining 14% of the maritime zone.</p><p>There are a number of legal provisions in place for the effective management and conservation of the South Georgia &amp; the South Sandwich Islands sustainable use MPA including: no-take zones from the coast to 12 nautical miles around Shag Rocks and South Georgia and 3 nautical miles from the South Sandwich Islands coast covering 2%; an additional pelagic no-take zone extending 12 nautical miles South Sandwich Islands coast; total ban on commercial bottom trawling; depth restrictions on fishing for the Marine Stewardship Council certified toothfish fishery protecting 92% of the sea floor habitats; and prohibitions on krill fishing during the summer breeding period (1 November to 31 March).</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 27/06/2018 16:38:50 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	1564 label Biography information for Angela Smith

926977

registered interest
date	19/06/2018
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: Marine Protected Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many kilometres of the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands marine protected area are legally designated as fully no-take areas.
tabling member constituency	Penistone and Stocksbridge
tabling member printed	Angela Smith
uin	155232
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2018 answer text <p>The South Georgia &amp; the South Sandwich Islands sustainable use MPA, established to deliver defined conservation outcomes, covers 1.074 million km<sup>2. </sup>No commercial fishing licences are granted across the remaining 166,207 km<sup>2</sup> of the maritime zone.</p><p>There are a number of legal provisions in place for the effective management and conservation of the South Georgia &amp; the South Sandwich Islands sustainable use MPA. There are approximately 20,500 km<sup>2</sup> of full no-take zones; 18,000 km<sup>2</sup> of additional pelagic no-take zones; prohibitions of long-line fishing across 989,000 km<sup>2</sup>; and a complete ban on commercial bottom trawling.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 27/06/2018 16:41:20 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	1564 label Biography information for Angela Smith

926978

registered interest
date	19/06/2018
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: Marine Protected Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what proportion of the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands marine protected area is permanently closed to krill fishing.
tabling member constituency	Penistone and Stocksbridge
tabling member printed	Angela Smith
uin	155233
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2018 answer text <p>The South Georgia &amp; the South Sandwich Islands sustainable use MPA, which covers 86% of the maritime zone, permits sustainable, highly precautionary fishing activities to take place. No commercial fishing licences are granted across the remaining 14% of the maritime zone.</p><p>There are permanent pelagic no-take zone around South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, from the coast out to 12 nautical miles. Through the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, krill fishing is restricted around South Sandwich Islands to 15% of the scientifically determined total allowable catch for the region, deemed highly precautionary. In addition to these international measures domestic regulations also prohibit fishing during the breeding period of the krill-eating penguins, seals and other natural predators and natural exclusion by sea ice in winter further restricts human activity.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 27/06/2018 16:36:31 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	1564 label Biography information for Angela Smith

926979

registered interest
date	19/06/2018
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: Marine Protected Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many kilometres of the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands marine protected area is permanently closed to krill fishing.
tabling member constituency	Penistone and Stocksbridge
tabling member printed	Angela Smith
uin	155234
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2018 answer text <p>The South Georgia &amp; the South Sandwich Islands sustainable use MPA, established to deliver defined conservation outcomes, covers 1.074 million km<sup>2. </sup>No commercial fishing licences are granted across the remaining 166,207 km<sup>2</sup> of the maritime zone.</p><p>The permanent pelagic no-take zone extends 12 nautical miles around South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands covering 38,500 km<sup>2</sup>. In addition to the highly precautionary international regulations through the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, there are seasonal closures during the breeding period of the krill-eating penguins, seals and other natural predators (1 November to 31 March) across the entire 1.074 million km<sup>2</sup> MPA and natural exclusion by sea ice in winter further restricts human activity.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 27/06/2018 16:45:21 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	1564 label Biography information for Angela Smith

926980

registered interest
date	19/06/2018
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	South Sandwich Islands: Fisheries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether any commercial fishing for krill has taken place within the South Sandwich Islands Exclusive Economic Zone in the last 25 years.
tabling member constituency	Penistone and Stocksbridge
tabling member printed	Angela Smith
uin	155235
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2018 answer text <p>The South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands sustainable - use Marine Protected Area (MPA) Permits, highly precautionary fishing activity. No commercial fishing for Antarctic krill has been undertaken in the last 25 years.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 27/06/2018 16:28:12 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	1564 label Biography information for Angela Smith

926981

registered interest
date	19/06/2018
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	South Sandwich Islands: Biodiversity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of biodiversity in the South Sandwich Islands.
tabling member constituency	Penistone and Stocksbridge
tabling member printed	Angela Smith
uin	155236
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2018 answer text <p>The South Sandwich Islands are remote and as a consequence data-poor in comparison to other Subantarctic regions. There is also a very real threat to the ecology of the South Sandwich Islands from volcanism, with recent eruptions from the volcanoes on Zavodovski, Saunders and Bristol.</p><p>Recent scientific work indicates that unlike penguin colonies on the Antarctic Peninsula, the penguin colonies on the South Sandwich Islands are stable. To further enhance our understanding of the South Sandwich Islands, the UK's Blue Belt initiative has funded a scientific expedition to visit the South Sandwich Islands in late January 2019, allowing information to be collected on a variety of topics, including on krill and on the benthic communities that inhabit the seabed. UK scientists are also leading work within international scientific research programmes to improve our understanding of this and the wider Southern Ocean region.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 27/06/2018 16:21:10 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	1564 label Biography information for Angela Smith

926982

registered interest
date	19/06/2018
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: Fisheries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what proportion of the Government of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands' total annual revenues came from commercial fishing operations licensed to operate within the (a) South Georgia and (b) South Sandwich Islands Exclusive Economic Zone in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Penistone and Stocksbridge
tabling member printed	Angela Smith
uin	155237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2018 answer text <p>The financial accounts of Government of South Georgia &amp; the South Sandwich Islands are freely available on their website.</p><p>For 2016, the latest year for which accounts have been published, the total annual revenue from the sale of commercial fishing activities in South Georgia was 73% of the (£5,586k) and for South Sandwich Islands 1.8% (£134K). These figures do not include associated economic activity such as harbour fees and non-revenue outcomes such as scientific research.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 27/06/2018 16:26:19 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	1564 label Biography information for Angela Smith