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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance his Department provides on whether live coral should be moved between Great Britain and Northern Ireland through the Green or Red Lane.

Asked by
Jim Allister (Traditional Unionist Voice)
Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
19 September 2025
Reference
74004
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether moving live coral from Great Britain to Northern Ireland requires (a) an export number, (b) an Export Health Certificate, (c) a Common Health Entry Document and (d) using TRACES.

Asked by
Jim Allister (Traditional Unionist Voice)
Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
19 September 2025
Reference
74006
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether a CITES permit is required to move live coral from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.

Asked by
Jim Allister (Traditional Unionist Voice)
Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
19 September 2025
Reference
74007
House
House of Commons

My honourable Friend, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mark Simmonds), has made the following Written Ministerial statement: I wish to update the house on our work to protect the environment of the British Indian Ocean Territory and in particular, the island of Diego Garcia which...

Member
Baroness Warsi (Conservative)
Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Type
Written statements
Date
6 March 2014
Reference
752 cc135-6WS
House
House of Lords

I wish to update the House on our work to protect the environment of the British Indian Ocean Territory and, in particular, the island of Diego Garcia which is home to a large UK-US military base.

This Government, and the Government of our most important ally, the United States, value the...

Member
Mark Simmonds (Conservative)
Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Type
Written statements
Date
6 March 2014
Reference
576 cc57-8WS
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on how many occasions coral has been confiscated at the UK border following attempts to bring it into the country illegally in the last 10 years.

[138224]

Asked by
Andrew Rosindell (Conservative)
Answering body
Home Department
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
4 February 2013
Reference
138224; 558 c22W
House
House of Commons

asked Her Majesty's Government:What estimate they have made of (a) the number of people who keep live coral in the United Kingdom; (b) the number of coral farms in the United Kingdom; (c) the number of suppliers of live coral in the United Kingdom; and (d) the proportion of those...

Asked by
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
13 June 2007
Reference
3962; 692 c254WA
House
House of Lords

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they have proposals to introduce a fiscal instrument to encourage the nascent coral farming industry in the United Kingdom on the grounds of improving sustainability.

Asked by
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
13 June 2007
Reference
3965; 692 c255WA
House
House of Lords

asked Her Majesty's Government:How much coral imported into the United Kingdom each year is transported by air freight; and how much by shipping.

Asked by
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
13 June 2007
Reference
3931; 692 c253WA
House
House of Lords

asked Her Majesty's Government:What are the average prices of (a) imported coral, and (b) coral propagated in the United Kingdom; and whether they have taken any steps to promote the propagation of sustainable stocks domestically.

Asked by
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
13 June 2007
Reference
3963; 692 c254-5WA
House
House of Lords

asked Her Majesty's Government:What studies they have undertaken of the extent to which the transport of live coral over long distances can cause stress to the specimens involved.

Asked by
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
13 June 2007
Reference
3934; 692 c254WA
House
House of Lords

asked Her Majesty's Government:What assessment they have made of the health and size of coral reefs in United Kingdom waters and around the world and of the effect that the trade in coral is having on those reefs.

Asked by
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
13 June 2007
Reference
3933; 692 c254WA
House
House of Lords

asked Her Majesty's Government:What guidance they have issued to the public to improve understanding of the methods of propagation of coral and the breeding of marine fish and the benefits of these methods as alternatives to the import of wild-caught specimens.

Asked by
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
13 June 2007
Reference
3966; 692 c255WA
House
House of Lords

asked Her Majesty's Government:What assessment they have made of the value of ecosystem services of marine wildlife such as corals and tropical fish; and whether this value is being eroded by the trade in wild-caught specimens.

Asked by
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
7 June 2007
Reference
3923; 692 c210-1WA
House
House of Lords

asked Her Majesty's Government:How much coral is imported into the United Kingdom each year; what proportion of the coral they estimate dies in transit; in which regions corals imported into the United Kingdom arrive; and what assessment has been made of the sustainability of those sources.

Asked by
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
7 June 2007
Reference
3930; 692 c202WA
House
House of Lords
Does my hon. Friend agree that we ought to be worried about not only the depletion of fish stocks, but the considerable damage that bottom trawlers do to habitats at the bottom of the oceans that have taken thousands of years to build up, including cold-water coral beds? Is it not time to consider having sites of special scientific interest at sea, as we have on land?
Asked by
Brian Iddon (Labour)
Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Oral questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
14 December 2006
Reference
454 c1001
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to protect ocean-bed corals, with particular reference to bottom-trawling.

Asked by
Norman Baker (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
20 October 2004
Reference
425 c695W; 191137
House
House of Commons
Deposited by
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Type
Deposited papers
Date
10 November 1999
Reference
Dep 99/1804
House
House of Commons
Type
Deposited papers
Date
2 November 1995
Reference
DEP/3 2273
House
House of Commons

If he will comment on the United Kingdom contribution to ecological restoration in the Gulf region in regard to (a) dugong habitats, (b) coral reef protection, (c) capping of oil wells, (d) oil pollution of the Kuwaiti Desert, and (e) removal of Iraqi mines. - Includes figures.

Asked by
Paul Flynn (Labour)
Answering body
Department of the Environment
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
15 January 1992
Reference
201 c573-4W;201 c571-2W
House
House of Commons