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HANSARDFisheries Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)On the basis that the Minister is not setting out a level playing field between UK fishers and foreign fishers, I am concerned that this sends the wrong message to fishers.…10 Sept 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)Government amendment 5 goes against the very heart of what was promised to coastal communities in the referendum. It is a betrayal of our coastal communities that the…10 Sept 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)Very briefly—not to interrupt your pace. I am sure the Minister has had time to reflect on the question that I asked in this morning’s session about the difference between a hard…10 Sept 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)I beg to move amendment 104, in schedule 3, page 52, line 7, at end insert— “(2A) A sea fishing licensing authority must attach to any sea fishing licence appropriate conditions…10 Sept 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.10 Sept 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)I am grateful for the confidence that you have in me and my party. It is consistent with some of your comments in the media recently. Thank you very much, Chair.10 Sept 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)I beg to move amendment 100, in schedule 3, page 52, line 15, at end insert— ‘(6) Conditions attached to any sea fishing licence must include a prohibition on the use of any form…10 Sept 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)If the Minister had given a commitment to ban supertrawlers over 100 metres with the licence conditions, I would have happily withdrawn the amendment, but as she has said only…10 Sept 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)In the debate on landing fish in coastal communities and banning supertrawlers, the Minister said that the salvation to those causes lies in the licence restrictions. She cannot…10 Sept 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)Briefly, it is good to hear that licences can be emailed. I will come back to that point. This technical amendment relates to how foreign boats and UK boats could be regarded in…10 Sept 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)This is a completely uncontroversial amendment, which we are happy to support. However, I am keen to understand from the Minister why the measure was not included in the original…10 Sept 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)The Minister is shaking her head. It is good to have that on the record. When we come to future SIs that take out bits that have been missed, because of the pace at which the…10 Sept 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)The amendments pick up on one theme I have raised with the Minister around the difference between a hard copy and an electronic licence. That relates to the experience of British…10 Sept 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)We spent a lot of time on these fisheries statutory instruments, and concerns were raised by Labour at the time as to whether we would need to revisit them—a point that the…10 Sept 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)I just note for the record that this change has been included as a Government amendment, not as part of the original Bill. I am concerned that other things have been missed and…10 Sept 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)We have not spent as much time discussing effort during the passage of this Bill as we did during the course of the last Bill. One reason for that is that Ministers subsequently…10 Sept 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)I am grateful to the Minister for giving way again. Whether it is a Plymouth trial, a Fraserburgh trial or a Grimsby trial, the concept is of a series of trials to look at days at…10 Sept 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)I am grateful to the Minister for giving way at the last minute and for agreeing to meet me, the hon. Member for North Cornwall (Scott Mann) and, perhaps in a different capacity,…10 Sept 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)I rise in support of this argument and also to pick up on something that the Minister said in her remarks. She argued that it is expensive to invest in new boats and used that as…10 Sept 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)Indeed, and if clause 18 were about processing fish, perhaps the right hon. Gentleman would have a point, but—I am sure he has read it—it is about landing fish, rather than…10 Sept 2020