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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 5633, tabled on 6 December 2023

Question

Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
Labour
Tooting
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many and what proportion of programmes supported through the Blue Planet Fund were already in operation before the Fund was established.

Answer

Rebecca Pow
Conservative
Taunton Deane
Commons

Answered on

19 December 2023

Since 2021, the Blue Planet Fund has invested into 12 programmes. Three programmes were already being supported through Defra’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) allocation: the Blue Forests Initiative, the Global Plastic Action Partnership and one component of the Championing Inclusivity in Plastic Pollution programme. Two further programmes - the Ocean Country Partnership Programme and Sustainable Blue Economies - are new Blue Planet Fund programmes, but where we incorporated the strongest components of other pre-existing Defra ODA programmes that were then closed prior to the launch of the Blue Planet Fund.

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