To ask Her Majesty's Government who owns Rockall and the sea around it. [HL1847]

The island of Rockall is UK sovereign territory, as provided for in the Island of Rockall Act 1972, which incorporated the island “into that part of the United Kingdom known as Scotland”, and made provision for the law of Scotland to apply to it.

UK sovereignty extends to the 12 nautical mile territorial sea around Rockall, under the provisions of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.