Select committee: Environmental Audit Committee
Conclusion 18
First Report - Biodiversity in the UK: bloom or bust?
Published 30 Jun 2021
Paragraph 96
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Conclusion (the committee's words)
If Marine Protected Areas continue to be poorly managed and monitored, with little enforcement of their protected status, there is a risk that the Government will have established a network of ‘paper parks’. According to monitoring data, the condition of MPAs is much the same as our predecessors observed in 2019: this must call into question the effectiveness of the Government’s approach to managing biodiversity in the UK’s territorial waters.
From: Environmental Audit Committee, First Report - Biodiversity in the UK: bloom or bust? (HC 136), paragraph 96, 30 June 2021
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 30 September 2021 (deadline 30 August 2021).