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HANSARD Fishing and Coastal Growth FundI have been looking at the history of seafood support funds. The last one was a UK seafood fund, which was reserved by the then Government nationally, to be used in a strategic…23 Oct 2025HANSARD Fishing and Coastal Growth FundMy hon. Friend has made some interesting observations about creativity, which may well be applied to the fund. We are trying to co-design the way the fund will work—it is there…23 Oct 2025HANSARD Fishing and Coastal Growth FundThe right hon. Gentleman will have to ask the Scottish Government about what they are going to do with their devolved part of the fund. He might also wish to ask them whether…23 Oct 2025HANSARD Fishing and Coastal Growth FundAs I have said, we are at an early stage in the process of seeing how we can do this. We are committed to trying to co-design the fund, so I am happy to talk to my hon. Friend…23 Oct 2025HANSARD Fishing and Coastal Growth FundThe Father of the House knows that flattery will get him everywhere—obviously, I hold him in equally high esteem. Along with my hon. Friend the Member for Great Grimsby and…23 Oct 2025HANSARDCountryside Stewardship Mid-tier AgreementsToday, I announce that this Government will offer one-year extensions to more than 5,000 farmers with Countryside Stewardship mid-tier agreements expiring this year. Countryside…15 Oct 2025HANSARDBovine Tuberculosis Control and Badger CullingWell, I have been in the job a month—I will be more specific when I have had more time to chase the questions I want to ask the appropriate people. However, I will make the…13 Oct 2025HANSARDBovine Tuberculosis Control and Badger CullingI am well aware of the increased risk of disease and issues suddenly emerging, having lived through the last outbreak of foot and mouth in this country, albeit not quite in the…13 Oct 2025HANSARDBovine Tuberculosis Control and Badger CullingYes. It is to deal with a TB hotspot that appeared. By the end of this season there will be no cull licences in any high-intensity or edge area. Everybody has said in their own…13 Oct 2025HANSARDBovine Tuberculosis Control and Badger CullingIt is a great pleasure to serve under your watchful eye in Westminster Hall, Mr Stuart, on this first evening back. I begin by acknowledging the strength of feeling in this…13 Oct 2025HANSARD Male Chick CullingI agree that when a supply chain, however difficult, is established and we try to move away from it, there can be unintended consequences. We have to look at the whole series of…11 Sept 2025HANSARD Male Chick CullingI thank my hon. Friend the Member for North Ayrshire and Arran (Irene Campbell) for securing this debate. She raised this issue in a Westminster Hall debate on animal welfare…11 Sept 2025HANSARDIndependent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration Report: Age Assessment ChecksIn the immigration White Paper, published on 12 May, we undertook to improve the robustness of the age assessment process, including exploring scientific and technological methods…22 Jul 2025HANSARDSyrian Nationals with Protection ClaimsFollowing the fall of the Assad regime, the Home Office paused all Syrian asylum interviews and decisions, as announced to Parliament on 11 December 2024. This pause extended to…14 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsBy speeding up the asylum process, so that people are not trapped in asylum hotels by huge backlogs, and by increasing decision making by 116%, following the 70% fall that we saw…07 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI assure the hon. Member that we take action against those who break the rules by working illegally. Raids and arrests for illegal working are up 50% in the last year; civil…07 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank my hon. Friend for raising this issue. While the clandestine entrant penalty scheme has to be rigorously enforced in order to be effective, it also provides a very fair…07 Jul 2025HANSARDAsylum AccommodationAs it happens, I can. We have extended the move-on trial until the end of the year.07 Jul 2025HANSARDAsylum AccommodationWe have had a 50% increase in raids and arrests on illegal working since we came into government, so perhaps the shadow Home Secretary should have spent more time when he was in…07 Jul 2025HANSARDAsylum AccommodationWe are as anxious as my hon. Friend to end the use of asylum hotels, but the backlogs we inherited from the Conservatives and the time it was taking—decision making collapsed by…07 Jul 2025