In the EFRA Committee’s hearing on 17 January 2023, Barry questioned Rt. Hon. Mark Spencer MP, Minister for Food, Farming and Fisheries; Mike Dowell, Deputy Director for EU Fisheries Negotiations and Policy at DEFRA and Colin Faulkner, Deputy Director for External Fisheries negotiations at DEFRA on the latest round of annual negotiations with the EU, Norway and the Faroe Islands regarding the quotas of fish stock that UK fishers are legally allowed to catch.