Question to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potential to use the UK–Faroe Islands Free Trade Agreement to encourage the government of the Faroe Islands to ban dolphin hunting.

The UK-Faroe Islands Free Trade Agreement provides an important framework for the UK Government to engage with the Faroese Government. UK officials have and will continue to raise the UK's opposition to cetacean hunting at meetings of the Joint Committee established under the Agreement, as they did at the last meeting in June 2026. This committee provides a valuable forum for discussions on issues of concern, and for which the agenda is mutually agreed in advance. The Faroese Government is in no doubt as to the strength of feeling and opposition to cetacean hunting in the UK.