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HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, who set out the issue so clearly. I have little new to add but would like to echo three points that he…24 Jun 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I strongly endorse the points made by the noble Lord, Lord Grantchester, and I have added my name to the amendment. I shall speak very briefly on behalf of…24 Jun 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I will speak briefly in support of the amendment. I have little to add to the excellent introduction by the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Whitchurch. When preparing to…24 Jun 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]24 Jun 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this short debate. I think that we are all agreed on the purpose of the amendment and the intention to make the bycatch objective…22 Jun 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank all who have taken part in this important debate; we have heard some interesting and well-informed contributions. Although we are not all of the same view, a…22 Jun 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Whitchurch, for tabling Amendments 7 and 53. I have added my name to the latter. I strongly support them for the reasons she…22 Jun 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I hope and expect that this amendment will not take as long as Amendment 2, so I will be very brief in my introduction. First, I thank the Minister and his officials for…22 Jun 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]22 Jun 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, we spent a great deal of time discussing sustainability during earlier stages of the Bill so I do not wish to repeat the arguments at length. However, because it has…22 Jun 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]22 Jun 2020HANSARDAgriculture BillMy Lords, in Gulliver’s Travels , Jonathan Swift wrote of the King of Brobdingnag: “And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass…10 Jun 2020HANSARDFood Supply and SecurityI thank my noble friend Lady Boycott for securing this debate. We can survive without many things, but food is not one of them. I want to talk about hunger. After housing costs,…14 May 2020HANSARDFruit and Vegetable HarvestThe Minister referred to customer demand and the health benefits of consuming fruit and vegetables. What are the Government doing to encourage the consumption of fruit and…30 Apr 2020HANSARDScientific Advisory Group for EmergenciesMy Lords, as the Minister will be aware, the process of providing scientific advice is set out in the Government’s chief scientist’s guidelines. Three key principles of these…28 Apr 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, who has expressed so eloquently many of the points I want to make. I shall try to avoid repeating them;…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I rise to speak briefly in support of the amendment because it provides me with an opportunity to give part two of my lecture on maximum sustainable yields, although I…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]I am sorry to interrupt the Minister, and I thank him for sitting down. The notion of an amendment proposing REM is not specifying a particular technology. As I mentioned in my…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]Thank you. I have a further question in relation to the point raised by the noble Earl, Lord Caithness. Although it may be difficult to project what the size of the fishing fleet…04 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I will speak very briefly to Amendment 33, tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb. I have to confess that it raised in my mind a thought I had not had…04 Mar 2020