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HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness for her proposed amendment, and as I have made clear in Committee and at Second Reading, the United Kingdom remains fully committed…11 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]Clause 27 is about English fishing opportunities as far as I recall. The other thing I should say is that I have been very clear that the Government’s intention is to use this…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]No, I think I must make progress. My noble friend Lady McIntosh raised this issue but we understand there are no current proposals for a Scottish fisheries Bill. This Bill is…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]I think I will take this offline with the noble Lord, because why are those schedules in the Bill, specifically requested by the devolved Administrations, giving them the powers…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]I am sorry that the noble Lord finds it difficult. The objectives have been agreed with the devolved Administrations; they have asked us to legislate with the agreement of those…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]All I will say to the noble Lord is that some amendments referred to, for instance, cameras or whatever. If he will allow me, I will move into areas that might be more in tune…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I am most grateful to my noble friend for her Amendments 77A and 80A, and to other noble Lords for their amendments, which, in various ways, seek to place requirements…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]I repeat that the requirement on the UK to limit its fleet will become part of retained EU law.09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I am most grateful to my noble friend Lady McIntosh for her Amendment 76ZA. I understand her interest in querying eels, salmon and migratory trout’s apparent exemption…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I will write to the noble Baroness on that. The reason for taking this decision at this time is to provide certainty on the current allocations. The point about…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for her amendment. The UK Government’s robust fisheries enforcement system is delivered in England by a number of agencies working in…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]I absolutely understand the point made by the noble Baroness. My assessment is that this is at the right level, and the fact is that the Royal Navy is growing or doubling its…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]I apologise to the noble Lord and the noble Baroness that I have no further detail other than to say that I am confident. We have upscaled in the way that we have—constructing…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]Yes, I will endeavour to ensure that a letter is directed to the noble Lord and the noble Baroness and put in the Library.09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I am also grateful to the noble Baroness for her amendment. The UK Government remain committed to keeping Parliament and the public informed of the progress of…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]I think it would be best if I just repeat that the Prime Minister has already committed to provide further details as the negotiating process develops. I have said those words at…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Grantchester, for his amendment, and to the noble Baroness who moved it. Although I recognise that the aim of the amendment is to…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]I had better look at the Bill again, and check exactly what I said so that I do not, in any way, say anything to the contrary. Certainly, the mechanism for new quotas and how we…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]There was, shall we say, licence on my part there because I thought it might excite intervention. Anyway, I look forward very much to the discussions. Anyone who wishes to come is…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]I take the noble Baroness’s point. It is why, in rerunning the objectives debate on Clause 1, the whole range of those objectives is absolutely entrenching our desire for…09 Mar 2020