Angling: Licensing

(asked on 1st September 2023) - View Source
Questioner
Julian Knight Portrait
Julian Knight
(Independent - Solihull)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many rod licences were issued by the Environment Agency in each (a) region and (b) county in 2022.

Answered by
Mark Spencer Portrait
Mark Spencer
Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 8th September 2023

The Environment Agency holds information on the sale of rod licences for the following geographical areas. The numbers of rod licences issues in 2022 are provided below.

Cumbria and Lancashire

32,081

Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and Leicestershire

50,657

Devon and Cornwall

17,011

East Anglia

94,956

Greater Manchester Merseyside and Cheshire

58,513

Hertfordshire and North London

52,320

Kent and South London

64,009

Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire

39,702

Northumberland Durham and Tees

25,669

Solent and South downs

37,149

Wessex

39,771

West Midlands

101,326

West Thames

45,452

Yorkshire

74,158

TOTAL

732,774

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