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 ...