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HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, Amendment 107 in my name follows on from our previous debate about the management of, and criteria used for, allocating future fishing rights, which could be the subject…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]I thank the Minister for that reply. We wish him well in his application in the spending review. I suppose that is what we should say first. We here today really do not have an…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]09 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironmental Programme: COP 26My Lords, does the Minister agree that action on the environment is not just an issue internal to the UK? We also have to tackle our global environmental footprint. For example,…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, that is extremely helpful. If the Minister’s think piece is going to cover the circumstances in which existing fishing allocations could be or would be revisited—the…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]There were other questions posed by the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, to which I hope the Minister will respond. Going back to the Navy, the Minister talked about the MMO having a…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, this amendment addresses a running concern in the Bill that Parliament will be precluded from knowing the details of the trade negotiations as they affect fishing…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]I think I am going to ask one of my dumb questions, which I know the Minister will tolerate. I am trying to understand the process here, because 1 July is quite soon for the…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]In that case, I am grateful to the noble Lord and I think it would be helpful if he could just check the point that the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, raised—I know he said he…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, we very much welcome the tabling of these amendments, all of which deal with the introduction of remote electronic monitoring cameras on vessels. I say first that I…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, Amendments 92 and 97 are in the name of my noble friend Lord Grantchester and Amendment 96 is in my name. Amendment 92 raises an important question about the role of the…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, my proposed new clause seeks to clarify whether we have sufficient resources to patrol British waters and enforce fisheries licences, an issue we did begin to touch on…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, the Minister has given a lot of detail, so I feel that I too will have to go back and read through Hansard . I am trying to clarify our very simple first amendment, the…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]I feel that the more we dig, the more complicated and confusing this gets. I understand that the noble Lord has to read out the brief he has been given, but I share the concern of…09 Mar 2020HANSARDAgriculture: Genome-edited CropsMy Lords, I do not have any farming interests, but I declare my interest in Rothamsted agricultural research, which is in the register. There is no doubt that genome editing can…04 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, the amendments in this group are tabled in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Grantchester. They are, in the main, probing amendments. They follow on from the…04 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]Just to pick up on that point, the definition to which the Minister has pointed us is about international agreements or arrangements “to which the United Kingdom is a party”. That…04 Mar 2020