HC Deb 02 December 2002 vol 395 c523W
Jeremy Corbyn

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what income from fishing licences was received in each of the last five years in the British Indian Ocean Territory. [84054]

Mr. Mike O'Brien

Income from fishing licences in the past five years in the British Indian Ocean Territory is as follows:

Financial year Income (£)
1997–98 1,573,094
1998–99 2,271,595
1999–2000 744,042
2000–01 1,108,072
2001–02 822,497

Against this, however, should be set the cost of management of the fishery including the fisheries protection vessel. In Financial Year 2000–01 fisheries expenditure was £1,559,678. For Financial Year 2001–02 it was £1,438,386.

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