Marine Protected Areas: Pollution Control
Commons · Question 36857 · Tabled 10 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero · Official record
Answered 18 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Pippa Heylings
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the oil spill map published by the Ocean Alliance Against Offshore Drilling on 19 February 2025, what steps he is taking to help tackle the systematic and ongoing oil and ch
Answer
Answered by Michael Shanks, 18 Mar 2025
The data presented in the oil spill map overstates the number of permit breaches associated with oil or chemicals discharged to sea as a number of these report duplicate discharges while some relate to administrative failures to comply with permit conditi...