Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many projects her Department is currently supporting are aimed specifically at reducing the impacts of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.

The Department contributes to reducing the impacts of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing through two multilateral programmes.

DFID core funding to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation includes support to the activities of its Fisheries and Aquaculture Department and the International Plan of Action to Prevent, Deter, and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing. UK support to the Global Environment Facility helps strengthen the management of fisheries and marine protected areas.