Defra published the summary of responses to A Sea Change – a Marine Bill White Paper. Defra received a total of 8519 responses, 8085 “campaign” responses and 434 “non-campaign” responses. 82% of the responses were supportive of the Marine Bill. A number of the responses emphasised the importance of the Bill being included in the Queen’s speech and that their support was dependant on the implementation of all the proposals.