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HANSARDNorth Sea Vessel CollisionI thank my hon. Friend for keeping in contact with me throughout the night and this morning. Just before the election, we both visited the command and control centre in her…11 Mar 2025HANSARDNorth Sea Vessel CollisionThe hon. Member should brace himself for what I am about to say: he acted with honour this weekend, relating to my circumstances, with his former party member, and I am grateful…11 Mar 2025HANSARDNorth Sea Vessel CollisionThe hon. Member has the Port of Immingham in his constituency, where the Immaculate was waiting to unload its cargo when a berth came available. I can assure him that the MCA is…11 Mar 2025HANSARDNorth Sea Vessel CollisionThe environment is absolutely at the front of our mind. Once we get the fire out, we will make those impact assessments and take the appropriate measures to clean up pollution, if…11 Mar 2025HANSARDNorth Sea Vessel CollisionI thank the right hon. Gentleman for his expertise in this area. He has raised with me the issue of tankers moored off Shetland and Orkney. I understand that the 1972 collision…11 Mar 2025HANSARDNorth Sea Vessel CollisionI thank the hon. Member. May I update the House? No sign of pollution from the vessels is observed at this time. Monitoring is in place, and should the situation change, the…11 Mar 2025HANSARDNorth Sea Vessel CollisionIt is standard procedure to bring on board local resilience forums in any situation such as this. That has been done: the forum is up and running. I am grateful to all elected…11 Mar 2025HANSARDNorth Sea Vessel CollisionI join the hon. Gentleman in paying tribute to maritime workers. Just as they kept us fed, fuelled and supplied all the way through covid, they keep our nation fed, fuelled and…11 Mar 2025HANSARDNorth Sea Vessel CollisionI thank my hon. Friend for his question. As I have said, the Met Office is modelling the wind situation at the moment. We need to get the fire out on the Solong. Once that is…11 Mar 2025HANSARDNorth Sea Vessel CollisionWe are a proud maritime nation, and we have the maritime skills to transport all sorts of hazardous substances, if need be, to our island nation. We have the skills, the people,…11 Mar 2025HANSARDNorth Sea Vessel CollisionI think the incident started at about 10 minutes to 10 yesterday, so we are only about 27 hours in. Within minutes, assets were stood up and the crews were brought safely home,…11 Mar 2025HANSARDNorth Sea Vessel CollisionThe hon. Member is right to raise that. I had a conversation late last night on that subject with the Minister responsible for nature, my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry East…11 Mar 2025HANSARDNorth Sea Vessel CollisionResponsibility for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency is reserved to me, and it covers the United Kingdom. I hope that that answers the hon. Gentleman’s first question. On his…11 Mar 2025HANSARDNorth Sea Vessel CollisionMCA assets are being deployed currently to assess and monitor any potential environmental impacts of this accident. The hon. Gentleman is right that the area is richly biodiverse.…11 Mar 2025HANSARDNorth Sea Vessel CollisionThe answer is yes. The Ministry of Defence contacted me last night to say that it was ready and willing to be deployed, if required. So far, that has not been required, because we…11 Mar 2025HANSARDNorth Sea Vessel CollisionThe right hon. Gentleman asks a very good question. In addition to having maritime responsibilities, I am the security Minister for the Department of Transport. We will learn any…11 Mar 2025HANSARDNorth Sea Vessel CollisionThe hon. Member makes an important point about how interconnected our coastal communities are when it comes to this type of incident. Our officials are monitoring where the…11 Mar 2025HANSARDNorth Sea Vessel CollisionWith permission, Mr Speaker, I will make a statement on the collision that occurred between two vessels off the east coast of Yorkshire yesterday. I want to begin by offering my…11 Mar 2025HANSARDNorth Sea Vessel CollisionThe shadow Minister is exactly right: something did go terribly wrong. My thoughts and prayers are with the missing sailor’s family. The company has been informed, and his next of…11 Mar 2025HANSARDNorth Sea Vessel CollisionAs I have said, the MCA’s counter-pollution assets are being deployed at the scene. The RNLI, search and rescue and aviation have all been on site, although search and rescue has…11 Mar 2025