Lord Patten – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Patten on 2015-09-17.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the potential benefits to marine conservation and habitats of extending British territorial waters in the sea areas around Gibraltar away from Spain.

Baroness Anelay of St Johns

The British Government has not made any such assessment. Her Majesty’s Government of Gibraltar has constitutional competence for marine conservation and habitats in British Gibraltar Territorial Waters.