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...