Asked by: Lord Benyon (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what data her Department holds on the number of (a) seals, (b) cetaceans and (c) other marine species killed by tidal energy installations.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The monitoring of the impacts of tidal energy installations is a requirement of marine licences issued by the relevant body for such infrastructure.