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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will set out her Department's priority areas for improving fisheries transparency (a) domestically and (b) in the UK's international seafood supply chains.

The Government is committed to improving fisheries transparency as part of its efforts to tackle illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. Domestically, we are strengthening IUU documentation requirements by requesting additional information for seafood imports and planning enhancing digital checks and controls at the border. Internationally, the UK is promoting greater information exchange through the FAO Global Information Exchange System and Global Record, in line with our commitments under the Agreement on Port State Measures, to help prevent IUU-caught fish entering global seafood supply chains. This includes work to establish connections with Regional Fisheries Management Organisations’ electronic systems.