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HANSARDEU Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Fishing IndustryPort facilities will, indeed, be one of the areas that the new £100 million fund will address around the country; we want to build capacity there as our share of the catch grows.…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 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 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 IndustryI can absolutely give my hon. Friend that assurance. I will be talking to DFDS later today. I pay tribute to what it is trying to do to resolve these problems. Some of the…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 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 IndustryI know that in previous debates on fishing the hon. Gentleman has spoken of the importance of tariff-free access to the EU market, and the trade and co-operation agreement gives…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 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 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 2021HANSARDEU Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Fishing IndustryWe are working closely with the industry and DFDS to identify what we can do to address some of the problems that have been encountered. I am aware that late last week, DFDS…14 Jan 2021HANSARDEU Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Fishing IndustryMy hon. Friend’s constituency is home to the UK’s fish processing industry, and tariff-free access will be important for some of those sectors. She asked two specific questions.…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 IndustryAs hon. Members will know, before Christmas the UK and the EU concluded a new trade and co-operation agreement, which established tariff-free trade in all goods and, among other…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 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 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 2021HANSARD Agricultural Transition PlanIt is the case that some of those lands that are in more marginal areas, where it is less productive, will see more opportunities to access local nature recovery, and in some…30 Nov 2020HANSARD Agricultural Transition PlanMy hon. Friend makes a very important point. We are looking at this matter. We believe that removing the area-based subsidies, could allow some adjustment in land rents to reduce…30 Nov 2020