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HANSARD Public OrderOf course; I will give way in a few seconds. Frequency is at the heart of the offence being created here, and as many people resident in Belfast and elsewhere in Northern Ireland…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Public OrderThe right hon. Gentleman is actually correct in his recollection but also incomplete, because not all those protests were organised by the Countryside Alliance. I can remember the…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Public OrderI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way, because this again comes to the heart of the process in the legislation we are passing. The proposition from the…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Public OrderWill the Secretary of State give way?12 Jun 2023HANSARD Public OrderI could be wrong because I am hopelessly out of date on so much of this stuff, but I think from memory that the right hon. Gentleman refers to the provisions of the Civic…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Public OrderI am grateful to the hon. Member for giving way, because that gets to the heart of the matter as far as the other place is concerned. The Government, in bringing the regulations…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Public OrderCan I first say something about the process this afternoon? The hon. Member for Crewe and Nantwich (Dr Mullan) highlighted in his speech the many significant issues that this…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Public OrderThe good news, I suppose, for the right hon. Gentleman is that those seeking to stop his walks or marches would not have to travel 50 miles. They would just have to say that they…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Public OrderThe hon. Member for Crewe and Nantwich (Dr Mullan) says that we have a common law system whereby common law offences are defined by precedent over many years—sometimes centuries.…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseI remind the House of my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. Might we have a debate in Government time, to be answered by a Treasury Minister, on the budget…08 Jun 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsT7. Those of us who represent fishing communities hear every week of boats that have had to tie up as a consequence of their inability to get crew, because of the Home Office’s…25 May 2023HANSARDInshore Industry Fishing Crews: VisasI am grateful to the Minister for giving way—although we still have an hour and a quarter. He has been generous with his time so far. The hon. Member for Strangford can still take…25 May 2023HANSARDInshore Industry Fishing Crews: VisasWhy did the Minister include Sule Skerry within the definition of waters to which the Act applies?25 May 2023HANSARDInshore Industry Fishing Crews: VisasIs it the Minister’s position today that the same people—the same stakeholders in the industry —who have been telling him that they welcome this somehow or other did not realise…25 May 2023HANSARDInshore Industry Fishing Crews: VisasEarlier today in the House, the Minister said that the package had been welcomed by the fishing industry. Who was he talking to who welcomed it?25 May 2023HANSARDInshore Industry Fishing Crews: VisasIt is in our interests to try to polish this particular item, because it could make a real difference. Sule Skerry is about 90 or 100 miles out from Orkney mainland. Those waters…25 May 2023HANSARDInshore Industry Fishing Crews: VisasI am never going to give up on this. I think we have made that very clear. However, the reason why I am particularly unhappy about this now is that this feels like it is the final…25 May 2023HANSARDInshore Industry Fishing Crews: VisasThe hon. Member forces me to intervene with his second reference to his meeting with the Minister. I am delighted that he got that meeting. On 20 April, when the Under-Secretary…25 May 2023HANSARDInshore Industry Fishing Crews: VisasThere are constitutional issues that the hon. Gentleman and I are part of the debate on and have been for some years. In microcosm, the danger the fishing industry faces is…25 May 2023HANSARDInshore Industry Fishing Crews: VisasYes.25 May 2023