Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many (a) Ministers and (b) officials of his Department will represent the UK at the meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources between 16 and 27 October 2017.

As is always the case, the UK has a strong contingent at the annual meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources. This is in order to push for increased protection of the Southern Ocean and to protect UK sovereign interests in the South Atlantic. The delegation comprises three Foreign and Commonwealth Office officials but also includes representatives of the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science and the British Antarctic Survey.