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HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]I thought that the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Randall, was far better than mine. I am very sad that, despite the fact that it would have “no legal effect”, it is not…11 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, we come to the last group of amendments. I suppose one is not really allowed to call this an amendment with my tongue in my cheek; it is around an important issue. The…11 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Whitchurch, for putting steel in my backbone again and demanding that this is in the Bill—whereas earlier I sort of retreated a bit. I am…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness on her work on the lobster hatchery in Cornwall, which really is something quite special and has been very successful.09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]I just seek a couple of clarifications. With any new fishing opportunities, there will have to be an auction that people have to pay for, but with existing quota they will not.…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I come to two amendments; I cannot imagine there is any way the Government could disagree with them, but we will see how we do. They are entirely in line with government…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister, particularly for his very helpful answer on recreational fisheries matters. I felt his answer on capacity was useful, but I just want…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I shall speak to my own amendments in this group–Amendments 76A and 79. One of the characteristics of this Bill is that we start to talk about recreational fishing,…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, we come now to one of the most important groups of amendments. I was interested in the reply given by the noble Lord, Lord Goldsmith, to the fourth Oral Question…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]I think quite the contrary, because they do not co-ordinate with other adjacent EEZs. They account only for fisheries in our EEZs, not the rest of the circulation of those stocks.…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]I just remind the Minister—this comes back to something the noble Baroness, Lady Worthington, said—that last Wednesday, when we last discussed the Bill, the Minister made it clear…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]Have the Scottish Parliament, the Northern Ireland Assembly and the Welsh Assembly approved these measures? The Government are saying, “These are devolved areas” and have put it…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I also support Amendment 82 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Grantchester. Before I start, I will go back to the previous group of amendments and say how much I…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]I am very convinced by the Minister. However, coming back to the fact that this is devolved, I must admit that the thought of Scottish waters insisting on it and English waters…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, for an excellent and important amendment. There is no point doing any of this stuff if we cannot enforce it, and enforcement on…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]How long will the temporary financing of extra resources last and when it will end? At that point, there will be a question mark. Will we go back to where we were when,…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]Perhaps the Minister can write to me with the figures for the current enforcement budget for England and the amount of Brexit special funding from the Treasury. They are discrete…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I am very pleased to support the amendment. If there has been one mistake made since the referendum—apart from the result of the referendum which, of course, is…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]I am sure that there is the potential to do that, and I look forward to the meeting; I am very pleased that the Minister is going to bring this meeting together, and maybe we will…09 Mar 2020