Fisheries Bill [HL]

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, for tabling Amendment 81, and rise to s...

My Lords, I add my support for Amendment 81 on the equitable treatment of British and foreign-lic...

I am grateful to noble Lords for this short debate, particularly to the noble Lord, Lord Teverson...

I am very convinced by the Minister. However, coming back to the fact that this is devolved, I mu...

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

83: After Clause 17, insert the following new C...

My Lords, my proposed new clause seeks to clarify whether we have sufficient resources to patrol ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, for an excellent and important amendment. There...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for her amendment. The UK Government’s robust fisheries enfo...

There were other questions posed by the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, to which I hope the Minister w...

I absolutely understand the point made by the noble Baroness. My assessment is that this is at th...

How long will the temporary financing of extra resources last and when it will end? At that point...

I apologise to the noble Lord and the noble Baroness that I have no further detail other than to ...

Perhaps the Minister can write to me with the figures for the current enforcement budget for Engl...

Yes, I will endeavour to ensure that a letter is directed to the noble Lord and the noble Barones...

I thank the Minister for that reply. We wish him well in his application in the spending review. ...

Moved by

Lord Grantchester

88: Clause 19, page 13, line 35, at end insert “not exceed...

My Lords, I shall move Amendment 88 and speak to Amendment 89. These are the subject of this grou...

My Lords, this amendment had me a little puzzled. I wondered whether the noble Lord had, like me,...

I am grateful to the Minister for her complete explanation. I beg leave to withdraw my amendment....

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

90: Before Clause 23, insert the following new ...

My Lords, this amendment addresses a running concern in the Bill that Parliament will be preclude...

My Lords, I am very pleased to support the amendment. If there has been one mistake made since th...

My Lords, I am also grateful to the noble Baroness for her amendment. The UK Government remain co...

I think I am going to ask one of my dumb questions, which I know the Minister will tolerate. I am...

I think it would be best if I just repeat that the Prime Minister has already committed to provid...

In that case, I am grateful to the noble Lord and I think it would be helpful if he could just ch...

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

92: Clause 23, page 15, line 16, leave out “may...

My Lords, Amendments 92 and 97 are in the name of my noble friend Lord Grantchester and Amendment...

My Lords, I associate myself with the amendments in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of...

My Lords, I have Amendment 103 in this group. I feel we are getting into the heart of the Bill he...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Grantchester, for his amendment, and to the noble...

I am sure that there is the potential to do that, and I look forward to the meeting; I am very pl...

There was, shall we say, licence on my part there because I thought it might excite intervention....

To be absolutely clear, does the Minister mean that we will honour the allocation of the FQAs in ...

My Lords, I will write to the noble Baroness on that. The reason for taking this decision at this...

I am grateful for the Minister’s response. I would just like to clarify that my amendment did not...

I take the noble Baroness’s point. It is why, in rerunning the objectives debate on Clause 1, the...

Is my understanding correct? Did my noble friend say that Clause 23(2) could be used to allocate ...

I had better look at the Bill again, and check exactly what I said so that I do not, in any way, ...

My Lords, the Minister has given a lot of detail, so I feel that I too will have to go back and r...

Again, the problem with the amendment stating “must” is that it concerns the determination of all...

I strongly support this amendment and, if that is the case, clearly the Government should just br...

Again, the provision talks about “for a calendar year”, so these are annual fishing opportunities...

I feel that the more we dig, the more complicated and confusing this gets. I understand that the ...

Moved by

Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville

93: Clause 23, page 15, line 23, ...

My Lords, this amendment introduces binding legal commitments not to fish above scientifically re...

My Lords, I rise to speak briefly in support of the amendment because it provides me with an oppo...

My Lords, I cannot say much more than the noble Baroness has already said, very eloquently. I len...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, and the noble Baroness, Lady Bakewell, ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness for her Amendment 93, which sets out a number of re...

I thank the Minister for his response and all noble Lords who have contributed to this short deba...

Moved by

Lord Teverson

94: Clause 23, page 15, line 27, at end insert—

“( ) Any...

My Lords, I come to two amendments; I cannot imagine there is any way the Government could disagr...

My Lords, I rise to speak to my Amendment 104. Like the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, I am concerned...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 105 in my name. We are getting to the heart of the Bill in...

My Lords, I put my name to Amendment 105 because I think that this group of amendments, around Cl...

My Lords, I apologise for my late arrival at the Committee. I believe my noble friend Lady McInto...

I just want to clarify things. We see the need for two tiers of transparent objective criteria: o...

Happily, I think we are in agreement about this. There are two tiers of allocation: the determina...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, for tabling his amendments, which addre...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, and the noble Baroness, Lady Bakewell, ...

I have heard that phrase before that fish are somehow held on trust. Fish are considered to be wi...

It is understood.

The issue of public property would, we believe, be covered by the socio-e...

Before moving on to the next amendment, I just wish to clarify that the main objection to this re...

I go back to Clause 23, which applies to the Secretary of State setting the UK quota. Clause 25 r...

Clause 23 applies only when we have an international agreement. It is clear that UNCLOS, which is...

I shall write to the noble Baroness on that detailed point.

On Amendment 106, which address...

I thank the Minister for those 101 reasons why it is difficult. My question is: do the Government...

I think that I just said that we do, and how we could do it with additional quota.

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The fundamental point that we are making is: can we ever imagine a point in the future where we c...

I note the noble Baroness’s disappointment, but that is the Government’s position and we have no ...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for going through all that, but another term for stability and cer...

I am assured that the economic benefit objective will have some bearing on that.

My Lords, I have not spoken on this amendment, but I am pretty horrified with the way that it has...

Anyway, I look forward to the new entrants scheme. That is good. I misunderstood the Minister, wh...

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

107: Clause 27, page 18, line 6, at end insert—...

My Lords, Amendment 107 in my name follows on from our previous debate about the management of, a...

I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Whitchurch, for putting steel in my backbone again and ...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 110 in my name. I have, perhaps overconfidently, attempted...

Hear, hear!

I will ignore that last comment. I thank noble Lords very much.

My Lords, I have been sitting here and listening for a long time. I have worked with these people...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness on her work on the lobster hatchery in Cornwall, whic...

My Lords, I too thank my noble friend Lady Wilcox very much for her distinguished support for fis...

I thank the Minister for those comments. Could we have one of those meetings with the specialists...

Most definitely. On the basis of my explanation, I hope that the noble Baroness will feel able to...

I just seek a couple of clarifications. With any new fishing opportunities, there will have to be...

Clause 27 is about English fishing opportunities as far as I recall. The other thing I should say...

My Lords, that is extremely helpful. If the Minister’s think piece is going to cover the circumst...

My Lords, I am grateful for the opportunity to debate this. We heard the figures earlier for the ...

Clause 27 allows for the sale of rights to English fishing opportunities —quota and days at sea, ...

My Lords, I have to say that I find it very disappointing, as the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, sai...

My Lords, I can commit to writing on the issues of tradeability of fishing rights and non-active ...

I do not think I shall get any satisfaction this evening so I shall not press this matter now, bu...