Parliamentary search - Marine and Coastal Access Bill [Lords]

Speaker | 498 c170 (Link to this contribution) Order. I feel sure that I misheard the hon. Gentleman when he referred to amendment 39, which I thin...

Lord Benyon | 498 c169-70 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman's comments; he puts my point of view very well. As I said, the ...

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Andrew George | 498 c169 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a very strong argument, which I support, as I did in Committee. "Contributi...

Lord Benyon | 498 c167-8 (Link to this contribution) Here we are at the last stage of the marathon passage of this Bill—well, we hope that it is the last...

Speaker | 498 c167 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

Lord Benyon | 498 c167 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment 30, page 2, line 7, leave out from the first 'of' to 'sustainable' in line 8...

Alan Whitehead | 498 c175-6 (Link to this contribution) No, that was not the first time I have heard that. I have discussed this and associated matters with...

Alan Whitehead | 498 c177 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an interesting point, to the extent that it would be possible to say that t...

Huw Irranca-Davies | 498 c174-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a very sound contribution to the debate. We also need to have cognisance of...

Alan Whitehead | 498 c173-4 (Link to this contribution) I shall address my remarks to amendments 30 and 31 and Government amendment 4, in particular. Govern...

Andrew George | 498 c175 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raised this issue in Committee in the context of schedule 5, when the Minister re...

Alan Whitehead | 498 c175 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for that intervention, as it underpins one of the central points of this debate...

Lord Benyon | 498 c170-1 (Link to this contribution) I apologise, Mr. Speaker; my understanding was that it had been selected, with a very late phone cal...

Andrew George | 498 c172-3 (Link to this contribution) I, too, rise to speak in favour of amendments tabled by the hon. Member for Newbury (Mr. Benyon), al...

Martin Salter | 498 c171-2 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Newbury (Mr. Benyon), whose arguments I listened to c...

David Drew | 498 c177 (Link to this contribution) I hear what my hon. Friend is saying, but there are at least some Labour Members who, because of its...

Alan Whitehead | 498 c178 (Link to this contribution) I understand what my hon. Friend is saying, but I do not see a contradiction between making the IPC ...

Andrew George | 498 c178 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making a sound contribution, but the point that he appears to be making might ...

Alan Whitehead | 498 c178 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman anticipates what I was about to say, which is that the MMO must have great expert...

Linda Gilroy | 498 c178 (Link to this contribution) I am following carefully the case that my hon. Friend is making, which has some merit. Has he taken ...

Alan Whitehead | 498 c179 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an interesting point, which is incorporated in the view that in all these matte...

Linda Gilroy | 498 c179 (Link to this contribution) I follow the logic of my hon. Friend's argument, but given my earlier comments, does he see merit in...

Alan Whitehead | 498 c179 (Link to this contribution) I see no contradiction between that role and the role of the MMO, for example, in designations of ma...

Celia Barlow | 498 c179 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that as well as the narrower planning issues, as he describes them, and th...

Alan Whitehead | 498 c179-80 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. My hon. Friend underlines the enormous changes that are taking place in offshore energy prod...

Julian Lewis | 498 c202 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State for taking this late intervention, but he spoke about the ap...

Hilary Benn | 498 c201-2 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman will know, the Severn estuary already has protection under the European habita...

Charles Walker | 498 c201 (Link to this contribution) Am I right in believing that the Bill will protect the Severn estuary from overdevelopment?

Hilary Benn | 498 c201 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend, and he has played an important part in the process, not least by le...

Russell Brown | 498 c201 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for giving way. I also want to thank the Under-Secretary of State for E...

Hilary Benn | 498 c200-1 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. As I was saying, the Bill has long been campaigned for by many peopl...

Hilary Benn | 498 c202-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for raising that point and his particular constituency con...

Angela C Smith | 498 c203 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend also pay tribute to the Ramblers Association and the British Mountaineerin...

Hilary Benn | 498 c202 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point, but the Bill is designed to allow such matters to be ad...

Lord Deben | 498 c202 (Link to this contribution) In talking about the plans for the new management arrangements, will the Secretary of State bear in ...

Ann McKechin | 498 c193-4 (Link to this contribution) The first batch of renewables has already been started. Let me also clarify something that we said ...

Linda Gilroy | 498 c193 (Link to this contribution) Concern was expressed about the capacity that the MMO would have to advise on such matters. Will the...

Ann McKechin | 498 c194 (Link to this contribution) We will—[Interruption.]

Linda Gilroy | 498 c194 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is being very generous in giving way. [Interruption.] Will the Renewable Energy Associa...

Ann McKechin | 498 c192-3 (Link to this contribution) There is an area of doubt, so that possibility cannot be overruled. My hon. Friend raises a point th...

Speaker | 498 c200 (Link to this contribution) Order. If hon. Members are not staying for this debate, will they please leave quietly and not engag...

Speaker | 498 c194 (Link to this contribution) Order. Far too many private conversations are taking place in the Chamber at the conclusion of this ...

Ann McKechin | 498 c194 (Link to this contribution) I can assure my hon. Friend that we will be engaging with the renewable industries on this matter, b...

Lord Benyon | 498 c195 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Reading, West (Martin Salter) paid great tribute to the Under-Secretary of State...

Hilary Benn | 498 c199 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Third time. This Bill has long been campaigned for by ma...

Nick Ainger | 498 c212-3 (Link to this contribution) As the coastal path goes through the constituency of the right hon. Member for Suffolk, Coastal (Mr....

Lord Deben | 498 c211-2 (Link to this contribution) I represent 74 miles of coastline, so for me this is an important Bill. I want to put it on record t...

Alun Michael | 498 c211 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Uxbridge (Mr. Randall) and to agree with his last poi...

Lord Randall of Uxbridge | 498 c210 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Front Benchers and other hon. Members for their kind words. When my private Member's Bil...

Hilary Benn | 498 c203 (Link to this contribution) I will readily pay tribute to those organisations, and all the others that time does not allow me to...

Lord Deben | 498 c205 (Link to this contribution) Is it not disappointing that on two occasions, once today and once yesterday, when the Government ha...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 498 c203-5 (Link to this contribution) In responding to the Secretary of State, I begin by paying tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for ...

Tom Levitt | 498 c206-8 (Link to this contribution) I may not be the obvious Member of the House to speak about marine environments or coastal access, b...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 498 c205-6 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my right hon. Friend. It was a shame that there were, apparently, reasons, I believe th...

Elliot Morley | 498 c209 (Link to this contribution) I strongly support what the hon. Gentleman says about balance. It is important not only for the fish...

Andrew George | 498 c208-9 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for High Peak (Tom Levitt) and I am certain that his trib...

Andrew George | 498 c209 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has tremendous experience in this area, and everyone who knows of his contr...

Speaker | 498 c209 (Link to this contribution) Order. We have to finish this debate at 7 pm and several hon. Members are seeking to catch my eye. I...

Linda Gilroy | 498 c209-10 (Link to this contribution) The Bill has been one of the most satisfying measures that I have been associated with in 12 and a h...

Andrew George | 498 c182 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is speaking to the PCS, so it would be helpful if he could reassure me that the w...

John McDonnell | 498 c181-2 (Link to this contribution) I concur, and that message has been relayed to staff at the meetings that they have had with the Min...

Huw Irranca-Davies | 498 c182 (Link to this contribution) I applaud the representations made by my hon. Friend and others on behalf of the PCS and the work fo...

John McDonnell | 498 c182 (Link to this contribution) The intention is clear from the Minister's letter, which I have read into the record today, and it w...

Desmond Turner | 498 c183-4 (Link to this contribution) Other hon. Members have already spelled out what my amendments will do. They are very simple. Their ...

John McDonnell | 498 c182-3 (Link to this contribution) That is straightforward, and I welcome that commitment. I reiterate that the longer-term future is i...

Desmond Turner | 498 c184 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has jumped to a point that I was working towards, but I shall turn to it straight awa...

Celia Barlow | 498 c184 (Link to this contribution) I remember the work that my hon. Friend and I did on that very issue on the Environmental Audit Comm...

John McDonnell | 498 c180-1 (Link to this contribution) I wish to speak to amendments 45 and 46, which are in my name. On Government amendment 4, I echo th...

David Drew | 498 c181 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that some of the hurt that was felt was caused by an apparent lack of enga...

John McDonnell | 498 c188 (Link to this contribution) I want to be clear on this point, because a question has been raised about it. Does that include the...

Ann McKechin | 498 c187-8 (Link to this contribution) I commend this interesting and well-informed debate, which has been on a number of important clauses...

Desmond Turner | 498 c187 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I am aware of that agreement, and I use it as support for my case, with which it is perfectly c...

Linda Gilroy | 498 c186-7 (Link to this contribution) May ask my hon. Friend, as I did my hon. Friend the Member for Southampton, Test (Dr. Whitehead) ear...

Desmond Turner | 498 c186 (Link to this contribution) I do not believe that there is any problem with the structure. The number of applications in questio...

Roger Williams | 498 c186 (Link to this contribution) I have been following the hon. Gentleman's argument closely, but as I understand it, the IPC was set...

Desmond Turner | 498 c186 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is entirely right that we must have coherence. I am not, for one moment, diminish...

Desmond Turner | 498 c185 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, but I do not entirely agree, because that is a fals...

Andrew George | 498 c185 (Link to this contribution) I presume that the hon. Gentleman is not saying that his proposal would result in a lesser need for ...

Lord Benyon | 498 c184-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes many interesting points about renewable energy, but to return to the amendm...

Celia Barlow | 498 c192 (Link to this contribution) Without going too much into semantic niceties, does my hon. Friend agree that the word "furthering" ...

Ann McKechin | 498 c191-2 (Link to this contribution) I shall explain in detail why I believe that the amendments would not strengthen the Bill. As a form...

Martin Salter | 498 c190 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is certainly making a fair fist of moving towards allaying the concerns that a number o...

Ann McKechin | 498 c190 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an important point. We want to get on with the real work and get these plans a...

Andrew George | 498 c191 (Link to this contribution) What harm would it do to make the changes as proposed by the hon. Member for Newbury? If the Ministe...

Ann McKechin | 498 c188 (Link to this contribution) That is indeed the case. I hope that my hon. Friend agrees that his amendments are unnecessary give...

Lord Benyon | 498 c188 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister comment on the points that I made about the number of employees who might transfer...

Ann McKechin | 498 c188-90 (Link to this contribution) I was coming to the hon. Gentleman's points on that subject. As he is aware, no appointment has been...

Linda Gilroy | 498 c190 (Link to this contribution) I acknowledge that that is a very wide group. These matters have been quite controversial, however, ...

Ann McKechin | 498 c190 (Link to this contribution) As far as I am aware, the wording of that clause is not currently part of that organisation's briefi...

Lord Benyon | 498 c177 (Link to this contribution) Is it not possible that the hon. Gentleman is looking at this down the wrong end of the telescope? T...

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