Mr. Conor McCabe:

I will ask my colleague, Mr. Woolley, to reply in a moment. He wrote the environmental chapter alongside other colleagues who are working on MPAs.

Decision makers will not take decisions in isolation of environmental concerns in the broad scheme. It would be great to have everything done at once, but that is not the way the world works. MPAs will come at some point in the near future, as will extra SACs. We built environmental concerns into the plan and they have become a part of the statutory framework for all decision makers to follow. I have no concerns about that scheme.

I will turn to Mr. Woolley now. He worked closely with the marine environment team in developing the environmental chapter. He might have some comments to make on this matter, too.