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Sandeels: Conservation

Commons · Question 27040 · Tabled 28 Jan 2025 · Attorney General · Official record

Answered 5 Feb 2025

Question

Asked by Joe Robertson

To ask the Solicitor General, what assessment she has made of the compatibility of the terms of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement with the UK's ban on sandeel fishing.

Answer

Answered by Lucy Rigby, 5 Feb 2025

Paragraph 21.27 of Erskine May states:“By long-standing convention, observed by successive Governments, the fact of, and substance of advice from, the law officers of the Crown is not disclosed outside government. This convention is referred to in paragra...