Parliamentary search - Marine and Coastal Access Bill [Lords]

Speaker | 494 c714 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind all right hon. and hon. Members that Mr. Speaker has imposed a 10-minute limit on Ba...

Speaker | 494 c753 (Link to this contribution) Order. As is clear to the House, a number of Members are still trying to catch my eye, and there are...

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Speaker | 494 c729 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am pleased to announce to the House a degree of quantitative easing. The time limit on Back...

Martin Caton | 494 c720 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this debate on this important and welcome Bill. I...

James Gray | 494 c720-1 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman acknowledge that there is a fundamental difference between the coastal acces...

Linda Gilroy | 494 c719 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the present degree of co-operation between the fisheries and with...

Andrew George | 494 c719-20 (Link to this contribution) Yes. I commend the activities of the invest in fish programme, which has made a tremendous contribut...

Martin Salter | 494 c718 (Link to this contribution) It is clear that the Chamber is awash with conservationists, but our annual debate on fisheries poli...

Andrew George | 494 c718 (Link to this contribution) I think that there is a robust debate ahead, but I also think that the hon. Gentleman is falling int...

Elliot Morley | 494 c715-6 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. I know that the wording of the Bill, as was pointed out, is "may have regard", but I return...

Rob Marris | 494 c716 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend share my surprise that, under the programme motion, a Bill of 326 pages lo...

Linda Gilroy | 494 c715 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend therefore agree with the WWF that the socio-economic consequences of desig...

Speaker | 494 c714 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman must be brief. Many Members want to contribute, and there is a time limit ...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 494 c714 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Brent, North (Barry Gardiner) had better raise his points in his own speech, and...

Elliot Morley | 494 c714-5 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome the Bill. Although it is true it has taken some time, it is a complicated measur...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 494 c713 (Link to this contribution) I have a lot of sympathy with the hon. Lady's point. Obviously the path in her part of the world was...

David Leslie Taylor | 494 c713 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 494 c713 (Link to this contribution) I shall draw my remarks to a conclusion, if I may. The Bill goes some way to addressing a number of...

Barry Gardiner | 494 c713 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that although clause 141(4) proposes that""an act done for the purpose...

Julia Goldsworthy | 494 c713 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the creation of the south-west coastal path has led the way in de...

Mark Tami | 494 c734 (Link to this contribution) Stop digging.

Anne Milton | 494 c736 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Lady join me in explicitly thanking all our constituents? My constituency is quite a l...

Angela C Smith | 494 c736-8 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree. That is why I thought the Opposition Front-Bench spokesman's comments were unnec...

Graham Stuart | 494 c734-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Government Whip for his intervention. Many mistakes have been made in the past. There w...

Angela C Smith | 494 c736 (Link to this contribution) This Bill presents us with a great opportunity to protect and improve our natural heritage. It is ap...

Martin Salter | 494 c742 (Link to this contribution) It is truly a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Ceredigion (Mark Williams). I am happy to infor...

Mark Williams | 494 c739-42 (Link to this contribution) I, too, welcome this popular, long-awaited and much-needed Bill. During my last four years in this p...

Angela C Smith | 494 c738-9 (Link to this contribution) No, I am going to move on; I have got only 12 minutes. The provisions before us on coastal access a...

Roger Williams | 494 c738 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Lady give way?

Simon Burns | 494 c742 (Link to this contribution) He's a Liberal Democrat.

Martin Salter | 494 c742-3 (Link to this contribution) Oh, well that explains it all. I do apologise; there is nothing wrong with the accent at all, and th...

James Gray | 494 c743 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Martin Salter | 494 c744 (Link to this contribution) Go on then—the hon. Gentleman is a proper Tory.

James Gray | 494 c744 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is a true old socialist. Of course my hon. Friend the Member for Beverley and Hol...

James Gray | 494 c745 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Reading, West (Martin Salter), with whom I have spent...

James Gray | 494 c746-7 (Link to this contribution) We are a pair of hoary old guerrillas, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and we stand guilty as charged. We remove...

Andrew George | 494 c747 (Link to this contribution) It is important to put the matter in the current economic context. Does the hon. Gentleman therefore...

David Drew | 494 c750-1 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for allowing me to intervene in her excellent speech. Does she accept that on...

Madeleine Moon | 494 c751-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. I intend to mention the subject briefly later in my sp...

James Gray | 494 c749 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is of course quite wrong. I opposed the Act simply because I believed there was n...

Madeleine Moon | 494 c750 (Link to this contribution) People listening to the debate cannot fail to notice the disproportionate number of Members from Wal...

James Gray | 494 c748-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an extremely good point. He serves with me on the Select Committee and came...

Martin Salter | 494 c749 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman about parks and gardens, but does he see the contradiction in his ar...

James Gray | 494 c747-8 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that intervention, and he is of course right. I shall s...

David Drew | 494 c748 (Link to this contribution) Given that the Bill on heritage protection is not being brought forward, does the hon. Gentleman acc...

Speaker | 494 c758 (Link to this contribution) Order.

Desmond Turner | 494 c758-60 (Link to this contribution) This debate has centred almost entirely on conservation. I do not wish to denigrate its importance: ...

Lord Benyon | 494 c760-3 (Link to this contribution) First, may I warmly welcome you, Mr. Speaker, to your position, and add that it is fitting that the ...

Huw Irranca-Davies | 494 c763-7 (Link to this contribution) I welcome you, Mr. Speaker, to the Chair on the occasion of these august proceedings. It is an apt d...

Barry Gardiner | 494 c755-8 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for North Essex (Mr. Jenkin) and I agree with, I think, every...

Nick Ainger | 494 c725-7 (Link to this contribution) Like everyone else who has spoken so far, I welcome the Bill. It may have been a long time coming, b...

James Gray | 494 c727 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman acknowledge that there is an important difference between the Pembrokeshire ...

Martin Caton | 494 c722 (Link to this contribution) I agree. That strong point has been made by various organisations, and it should be considered in Co...

Graham Stuart | 494 c722 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the role of the Infrastructure Planning Commission in marine dete...

Martin Caton | 494 c722-3 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not, and I do not wish to labour that point, because I want to make my point about landscap...

Peter Viggers | 494 c723-5 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for giving me the chance to follow the hon. Member for Gower (Mr. Cat...

Anne Milton | 494 c722 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree with the huge number of constituents who have contacted me on this iss...

Martin Caton | 494 c721-2 (Link to this contribution) I accept that. There is a different approach, but the Bill includes framework powers to enable the A...

Martin Salter | 494 c722 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend mentioned damage. Is he aware that clause 140 makes a person guilty of an offence if ...

Martin Caton | 494 c722 (Link to this contribution) I do agree. I think that the Bill is very good, but there is potential for strengthening it. I hope ...

James Gray | 494 c733 (Link to this contribution) To correct one point, the hon. Member for Sheffield, Hillsborough (Ms Smith) has got her figures qui...

Angela C Smith | 494 c733 (Link to this contribution) I suggest that the reason no more than two miles of coast is walked at any one time is because two a...

Graham Stuart | 494 c733 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for that intervention. The south-west has been mentioned, as has south Pembrok...

Linda Gilroy | 494 c730-2 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I welcome the extension you have just granted, but whether my voice i...

Graham Stuart | 494 c732-3 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to take part in the debate and to follow the hon. Member for Plymouth, Sutton...

Lord Randall of Uxbridge | 494 c729 (Link to this contribution) Of course, but the salt marshes are not part of the marine environment; they are already catered for...

Bob Spink | 494 c729 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will be aware of the avocets on Two Tree Island on Canvey Island in my constituen...

Lord Randall of Uxbridge | 494 c727-9 (Link to this contribution) I should like to thank the Secretary of State and my hon. Friend the Member for Arundel and South Do...

Nick Ainger | 494 c727 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that the hon. Gentleman is correct about compensation. What was done was done by agre...

Rob Marris | 494 c706 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend say something briefly about equestrian access, where there is a difficult ...

Hilary Benn | 494 c706 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that it is appropriate, but I hope that the hon. Gentleman will acknowledge that we h...

Graham Stuart | 494 c706 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State tell the House why he is so set against compensation for landowners who ...

Hilary Benn | 494 c706 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way two more times, then I shall bring my remarks to a close.

Hilary Benn | 494 c706 (Link to this contribution) We should consider that in Committee, and I am happy to give that assurance to my hon. Friend and an...

Gordon Marsden | 494 c706 (Link to this contribution) On the specific point about part 9 and access to coastal paths and beaches, which I greatly welcome,...

Hilary Benn | 494 c705-6 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely acknowledge that point and that is why the provisions in this part of the Bill try to s...

David Leslie Taylor | 494 c705 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way on that point. The 646 Members of this House ...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 494 c713 (Link to this contribution) I think my hon. Friend would accept that there is considerable demand from organisations concerned a...

James Gray | 494 c713 (Link to this contribution) Given that two thirds of the coast is already open to walkers, does my hon. Friend see a real need f...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 494 c711-2 (Link to this contribution) Depending on the conditions set for the zones, one benefit would be to ensure sustainable fishing, b...

Bernard Jenkin | 494 c711 (Link to this contribution) Can my hon. Friend enlighten the House a little about the debate in the other place? The Minister th...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 494 c712 (Link to this contribution) That point needs further examination and perhaps the Minister will reply to it. It would depend on t...

Roger Williams | 494 c712 (Link to this contribution) My reading of the Bill suggests that if someone does damage to a marine conservation zone or a highl...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 494 c707-9 (Link to this contribution) The American poet Walt Whitman once described the sea as "a continual miracle". His description capt...

Hilary Benn | 494 c706-7 (Link to this contribution) There is indeed. I have no doubt that that is an issue that we will also consider in Committee. In t...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 494 c709-11 (Link to this contribution) I agree: what was the point of the 2001 manifesto commitment if it is not honoured? I was simply mak...

Hilary Benn | 494 c702 (Link to this contribution) As I am sure that the hon. Gentleman is aware, the ship-to-ship transfer regulations are currently u...

Roger Williams | 494 c701 (Link to this contribution) There is concern, however, that the MMO will not have enough resources and manpower to carry out thi...

Hilary Benn | 494 c700-1 (Link to this contribution) The MMO is going to be established as an NDPB precisely to give it the independence that many of tho...

Shona McIsaac | 494 c700 (Link to this contribution) Constituents of mine who work for the Marine and Fisheries Agency have come to see me about transfer...

Hilary Benn | 494 c700 (Link to this contribution) If my hon. Friend will bear with me, I am going to make some progress; otherwise, the time for other...

Lord Swire | 494 c702 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State not agree that more could be done in the Bill to address the issue of sh...

Hilary Benn | 494 c701 (Link to this contribution) Matters that fall within the purview of the Welsh Assembly Government are for the Welsh Assembly Gov...

Albert Owen | 494 c701 (Link to this contribution) The MMO will have additional resources, but where measures are devolved to the Welsh Assembly Govern...

Hilary Benn | 494 c701 (Link to this contribution) The Marine and Fisheries Agency has roughly 100 staff at head office and 100 out in the coastal offi...

Sally Keeble | 494 c700 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?

Hilary Benn | 494 c703 (Link to this contribution) I am keen that anyone and everyone who has an interest has an opportunity to express a view during c...

Sally Keeble | 494 c703 (Link to this contribution) As my right hon. Friend knows, my constituency, although about as far from the sea as one can get in...

Hilary Benn | 494 c703-4 (Link to this contribution) The simple reason, as I tried to explain earlier, is that the Bill in its current form gives the Sec...

Andrew George | 494 c703 (Link to this contribution) There is considerable consensus on this Bill, as the Secretary of State has said, but he will be awa...

Hilary Benn | 494 c704 (Link to this contribution) I will make some progress, if my hon. Friend will forgive me, since I gave way to him earlier. Many ...

Barry Gardiner | 494 c704 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way on that point?

Hilary Benn | 494 c705 (Link to this contribution) It is not for us to put such duties on the Welsh Assembly Government. It is a matter for them to det...

David Jones | 494 c704 (Link to this contribution) Has the Secretary of State noted the concern expressed by the Wildlife Trusts of Wales and similar c...

Hilary Benn | 494 c702-3 (Link to this contribution) I will happily write to the hon. Gentleman in response to his point. The Bill also tightens up the ...

Lembit Opik | 494 c702 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State for coming back to the general concern that I raised earlier...

Hilary Benn | 494 c698-9 (Link to this contribution) For the reason I alluded to in answering the previous question, the fundamental responsibility rests...

Bernard Jenkin | 494 c698 (Link to this contribution) Under this Bill, who will be legally responsible for ensuring that fish stocks are not over-exploite...

Hilary Benn | 494 c698 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend that we have to manage the competing demands that we make of our seas an...

Barry Gardiner | 494 c698 (Link to this contribution) In maintaining that position, does my right hon. Friend recognise that there is a conflict with the ...

Speaker | 494 c698 (Link to this contribution) Order. That was far too lengthy.

David Davis | 494 c698 (Link to this contribution) On precisely that point, the thrust of the Bill in creating marine conservation zones is entirely su...

Hilary Benn | 494 c698 (Link to this contribution) The issue has been debated at some length in the other place and no doubt will be looked at in Commi...

Lembit Opik | 494 c697 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State invites me to invite him to my constituency, which I will, not least because ...

Hilary Benn | 494 c697 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman listens to what I say about the Bill, he may feel somewhat reassured, but I wi...

Hilary Benn | 494 c697 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Under-Secretary is a man of his word and my hon. Friend the Member for City of Yo...

Hilary Benn | 494 c700 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to give the right hon. Gentleman a number now as it would not be wise to do so. I kno...

John Redwood | 494 c699-700 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way before he leaves that very important point. A...

Alan Whitehead | 494 c699 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for his great generosity in giving way once more. On the designation of...

Hilary Benn | 494 c699 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that we will look at that question in Committee. The purpose of the Bill, however, is to g...

Hilary Benn | 494 c699 (Link to this contribution) If the right hon. Gentleman will bear with me, I am going to make some progress, as many Members wis...

Bernard Jenkin | 494 c699 (Link to this contribution) Is the Secretary of State aware that the WWF tried to mount a prosecution against the failure of the...

Hilary Benn | 494 c699 (Link to this contribution) In the end, it is for the courts to determine whether cases can or cannot be brought, but that under...

Hilary Benn | 494 c699 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way one more time.

Hugh Bayley | 494 c697 (Link to this contribution) There is huge interest in my constituency in this Bill. The Yorkshire wildlife trust held a public m...

Hilary Benn | 494 c696 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. For many centuries, our nation has been def...

Andrew George | 494 c716-8 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Scunthorpe (Mr. Morley), because he has a disti...

Graham Stuart | 494 c733-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an interesting point. The coastline that I know best is in my area and there ar...

Graham Stuart | 494 c709 (Link to this contribution) The Ministers who are here today are to be congratulated on introducing this Bill. However, it does ...

Elliot Morley | 494 c716 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend knows as well as I do that, rather than faff around and waste an awful lot of time, C...

Martin Salter | 494 c744-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for drawing that point to my attention, but I was talking about landowner...

Martin Salter | 494 c745 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman read on to the record that it is he and I who have been acting in guerrilla ...

Bernard Jenkin | 494 c753-5 (Link to this contribution) This is an important Bill. It has been long in the gestation, but is welcome and, I believe, address...

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Dogs

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