Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 30 April 2018 to Question 137984, on seas and oceans: environment protection, whether the UK Government voted in support of measure 053 on increasing marine protected area coverage for effective marine biodiversity conservation at the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2016.

The UK Government abstained from the vote on motion 053 on increasing marine protected area coverage for effective marine biodiversity conservation at the 2016 IUCN World Conservation Congress.