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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she plans to take with the responses to her Department's consultation on spatial management measures for industrial sandeel fishing, which closed on 29 May 2023.

Defra is now considering these responses and undertaking further analysis ahead of the introduction of any management measures. Any measures introduced will be outlined in the Government response to the consultation.