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Sandeels: Conservation

Commons · Question 27046 · Tabled 28 Jan 2025 · Attorney General · Official record

Answered 5 Feb 2025

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Asked by Joe Robertson

To ask the Solicitor General, what assessment she has made of the likely outcome of the arbitration on the sandeel fishing ban; and what steps she is taking to prepare for an unfavourable outcome.

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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...