Marine and Coastal Access Bill [HL]

The Minister may look specifically at paragraph 46 of the Explanatory Notes, where the Government state: "““The MMO is to act as the UK Government’s strategic delivery body in the marine area. As such it will exercise a number of marine functions””." That is a long way of saying that it will be precisely an agency. The Minister already cited the Environment Agency—which the noble Baroness, Lady Young of Old Scone, may agree is perhaps the best exemplar and model for the new agency—but it was significant that the other organisations to which he referred do not have ““management organisation””, which is, to my mind, a limiting title and inappropriate for this body, as part of their title.