Current status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 24 June 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how frequently its ministers receive reports from its Marine Directorate on contaminants in marine animals.
The findings from contaminant testing undertaken in the Scottish marine environment, are reported to the Scottish Ministers in the form of Scotland’s Marine Assessment 2020 and the OSPAR Quality Status assessments, the most recent of which was published in 2023: Quality Status Report 2023 | OSPAR Commission . Monitoring data collected in 2021 will be used in the UK Marine Strategy 2024 assessment. These reports are compiled over a number of years and are not annual.