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HANSARDRivers and Estuaries: Derelict BoatsMy Lords, the Canal & River Trust and the Environment Agency, the two principal navigation authorities, publish guidance on licensing and registration, and ownership is traced via…19 Jun 2025HANSARDRivers and Estuaries: Derelict BoatsThe noble Lord raises an interesting case of some very positive enforcement action that was taken by the local authority that he named. We very encourage all navigation…19 Jun 2025HANSARDRivers and Estuaries: Derelict BoatsMy Lords, we leave such matters to the experts. My noble friend raises an interesting point, which I am sure navigation authorities consider. This is why it is important that the…19 Jun 2025HANSARDRivers and Estuaries: Derelict BoatsThe right reverend Prelate raises an important point. All the navigation authorities have different set-ups, corporate structures and funding patterns. He raises the framework…19 Jun 2025HANSARDRivers and Estuaries: Derelict BoatsAt the risk of repetition, it has long been the convention to leave this to navigation authorities to manage best. They understand best their own waterways, rivers and canals,…19 Jun 2025HANSARDRivers and Estuaries: Derelict BoatsI will try my best again for my noble friend. He raises a specific case in Maidenhead; I will be honest with the House, I do not have the details of that case. He is absolutely…19 Jun 2025HANSARDRivers and Estuaries: Derelict BoatsMy Lords, I too have learnt some new acronyms this week and ADV is one of them, so I join the noble Lord in gaining that knowledge, and in understanding the importance of the fact…19 Jun 2025HANSARDEnglish Marine Protected Areas: Bottom Trawling and DredgingMy Lords, 60% of English marine protected areas are protected by by-laws that limit the use of damaging fishing gear. On Monday 9 June, the Secretary of State announced that the…19 Jun 2025HANSARDEnglish Marine Protected Areas: Bottom Trawling and DredgingMy Lords, I welcome the noble Baroness’s welcome of the announcement; it is an important step forward in a long-term plan properly to protect our marine ecosystems and environment…19 Jun 2025HANSARDEnglish Marine Protected Areas: Bottom Trawling and DredgingMy Lords, the Government support the fishing industry and recognise its key role in food supply, which is why we are also launching the fishing and coastal growth fund, which is…19 Jun 2025HANSARDEnglish Marine Protected Areas: Bottom Trawling and DredgingAs the noble Baroness sets out, the consultation has 42 MPAs, and 41 of those have bottom-towed gear restrictions proposed. As I understand it—I will write if this is not the…19 Jun 2025HANSARDEnglish Marine Protected Areas: Bottom Trawling and DredgingI think the noble Lord would agree that it is important that we have a comprehensive, fair and equitable approach to the way that we protect our marine environment. The noble Lord…19 Jun 2025HANSARDEnglish Marine Protected Areas: Bottom Trawling and DredgingMy noble friend is absolutely right, and this is why we are serious about taking action in this area. When it comes to national security or promoting biodiversity and protecting…19 Jun 2025HANSARDEnglish Marine Protected Areas: Bottom Trawling and DredgingAt the risk of repeating myself, we are not undertaking a blanket ban, because it is important that we can support fishing and other marine activity where it is not damaging…19 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI do not want to extend the debate too much or do too much quoting across the Dispatch Box but, to counter that, Labour’s Plan to Make Work Pay talks about establishing a single…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI do not have chapter and verse but a page number. Noble Lords can find it on page 16 of the Labour’s Plan to Make Work Pay document, which was part of our manifesto.18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI thank the noble Baroness for that intervention. The costs are not factored in. As I said, they will be set out in due course, following discussions with a range of stakeholders.…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI am more than happy to. The noble Lord, Lord Hunt, anticipates the comments that I was just about to come to—but we can address the point now. The noble Lord, Lord Jackson of…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillThe noble Lord raises an interesting point, though I fear straying into legal territory, which I am not adequately briefed to comment on. I will write to him with further detail…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillWe have had a fair amount of scrutiny of the wider proposal, rather than the Bill’s specific fair work agency proposals. As I said, over the past nine years since 2016, there have…18 Jun 2025