Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to his Department's press release of 15 September 2016 entitled UK set to protect 4 million square kilometres of ocean, what progress the Government has made on delivering a marine protected area around Tristan da Cunha by 2020.

The Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) and the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has worked with the Government of Tristan da Cunha to identify steps to be taken to implement a marine protection strategy by 2020.