Richard Benyon – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Richard Benyon on 2016-05-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what data her Department holds on the number of (a) seals, (b) cetaceans and (c) other marine species killed by tidal energy installations.

Andrea Leadsom

The monitoring of the impacts of tidal energy installations is a requirement of marine licences issued by the relevant body for such infrastructure.