Marine Protected Areas

(asked on 8th July 2014) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of the total land mass of the UK was classified as a marine protected area or a marine conservation area in each of the last 10 years.


Answered by
George Eustice Portrait
George Eustice
This question was answered on 14th July 2014

The specific year-by-year statistics requested are not routinely calculated for marine protected areas; 9.4% of the UK's seas are currently designated as marine protected areas.

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