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Cetaceans and Seals: Conservation

Commons · Question 38872 · Tabled 17 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 28 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Ben Maguire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to (a) add all resident pinniped species to Schedule 5 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and (b) protect all pinniped and cetacean

Answer

Answered by Mary Creagh, 28 Mar 2025

We continue to consider the evidence for legislative change. This includes the proposals submitted by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee to the previous Government for amending the lists of species afforded protection by the Wildlife and Countryside ...