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

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by the then Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on 20 March 2018 (HC Deb col 176), what progress they have made with the establishment of an exclusive economic zone for UK fishing "that is ours to police and control".

The UK formally established its exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in 2014. Vessels carrying out commercial fishing in the UK EEZ are regulated by way of a combination of legislative measures and conditions attached to fishing licences, thereby allowing us to control fishing in our waters in a way that was not possible when we were subject to the EU's Common Fisheries Policy.