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HANSARDEU Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Fishing IndustryMy hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Scotland is absolutely right on this issue. We have been clear for the whole year, as we prepared for the end of the transition…14 Jan 2021HANSARDEU Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Fishing IndustryWe are working very closely with the industry on all these matters. In the short term, we have to sort out issues arising with import agents and declarations on TRACES and so…14 Jan 2021HANSARDEU Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Fishing IndustryObviously we all know that, on every front, people would always like more money, but we also recognise that the Treasury has to balance the finances as best it can in these…14 Jan 2021HANSARDEU Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Fishing IndustryWe are having roundtable discussions with the industry formally twice a week and are in conversation with it daily. We have helplines set up at the Animal and Plant Health Agency…14 Jan 2021HANSARDEU Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Fishing IndustryThe solution is for us to work closely with authorities in France to get an agreement on what is required. To be fair to the French authorities, while they have, as I said,…14 Jan 2021HANSARDEU Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Fishing IndustryThe salmon industry in Scotland benefits from tariff-free access to the EU market. While there have been, as I said, some problems, particularly around groupage and mixed…14 Jan 2021HANSARDEU Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Fishing IndustryThere will be new opportunities with the uplift in quota that we are getting, but also the new requirements that we are bringing in to require vessels to land a greater proportion…14 Jan 2021HANSARDEU Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Fishing IndustryI can assure my hon. Friend that we are working daily with industry to identify specific granular problems that are presenting themselves and then working with authorities in…14 Jan 2021HANSARDEU Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Fishing IndustryI am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his kind words about the Fisheries Minister. He is absolutely right: she was across the detail of this agreement and was briefing…14 Jan 2021HANSARDEU Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Fishing IndustryThe responsibility for issuing the export health certificates that are causing these challenges rests with the Scottish Government, but I would like to pay tribute to Food…14 Jan 2021HANSARDEU Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Fishing IndustryA common feature of annual fisheries negotiations, which will continue, is what are called the annual exchanges, where a swapping arrangement takes place Government to Government.…14 Jan 2021HANSARDEU Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Fishing IndustryMy hon. Friend raises an important point, because many of the problems we have are often down to different interpretations of the official control regime in different countries,…14 Jan 2021HANSARDEU Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Fishing IndustryThis is an issue that is often raised and refers, I think, specifically to a Lithuanian vessel that started to access our waters last year, targeting mainly horse mackerel. There…14 Jan 2021HANSARDEU Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Fishing IndustryWe are working with the industry daily to identify the specific challenges that they are encountering, such as individual examples of why the French may have raised a query on an…14 Jan 2021HANSARDEU Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Fishing IndustryIt is certainly not a no-deal Brexit. There is a free trade and co-operation agreement that means that we have tariff-free trade in goods, including in shellfish. One of the key…14 Jan 2021HANSARDEU Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Fishing IndustryWe have been working closely with authorities, particularly in France and the Netherlands, to understand the sorts of issues that they are finding. At one end of the spectrum,…14 Jan 2021HANSARDEU Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Fishing IndustryMay I begin where the right hon. Gentleman ended and say that we are looking and working very closely with industry on this matter? We are having twice-a-week meetings with all…14 Jan 2021HANSARDEU Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Fishing IndustryWe left the London fisheries convention and gave notice under that because it is our intention that the 6 to 12-mile zone should be reserved predominantly for our own fishermen,…14 Jan 2021HANSARDEU Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Fishing IndustryAs I said earlier, there have been some teething problems, particularly in Scotland, I know. DFDS established a hub system at Larkhall so it could group consignments together. It…14 Jan 2021HANSARDEU Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Fishing IndustryAlthough we did not get the larger uplift that we wanted, and we did not get as close to zonal attachment as we wanted, we got a significant step in the right direction, with an…14 Jan 2021