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HANSARDSeafarers' Wages Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I will not go over all the points that I made earlier, but I will address some of the specific issues raised by hon. Members. My hon. Friend the Member for Dover mentioned…17 Jan 2023HANSARDSeafarers' Wages Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I thank the hon. Member for the first point he made, about the amendment creating a duty rather than a power. That is exactly why we have done this; hon. Members from across the…17 Jan 2023HANSARDSeafarers' Wages Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)The hon. Member is quite right. I should have been referring to amendment 64. What I was referring to in that section was Government amendment 18, which relates to Opposition…17 Jan 2023HANSARDSeafarers' Wages Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)I will happily provide the Committee with a full list ahead of Report stage. We are talking about serious incidents where life is at risk, but I am happy to write to the hon.…17 Jan 2023HANSARDSeafarers' Wages Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Harris. As currently drafted, clause 9 allows harbour authorities to refuse access to a harbour if an operator has not paid a…17 Jan 2023HANSARDSeafarers' Wages Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)I beg to move amendment 24, in clause 9, page 7, line 19, leave out “may” and insert “must”. This amendment imposes a duty on harbour authorities to refuse access in the…17 Jan 2023HANSARDSeafarers' Wages Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)That is a fair point. We have considered the matter, but we will be setting a national tariff in regulations following wide consultation, which will then be looked at by the…17 Jan 2023HANSARDSeafarers' Wages Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)I thank everybody for coming back. I am sorry that my speed of speaking was so swift earlier; I shall try to keep these comments at a more temperate pace. I will pick up on a…17 Jan 2023HANSARDSeafarers' Wages Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)That will be clarified through the tariff regulations, which we will introduce. It will depend on the nature of the ship and the size of it, but we aim for consistency in terms of…17 Jan 2023HANSARDSeafarers' Wages Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I thank the hon. Member for his point. Everybody will be covered if on a boat that moves to and from those platforms at least 120 times a year, but the expansion of the UK’s…17 Jan 2023HANSARDSeafarers' Wages Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I thank the hon. Member for raising that point. The banding is an issue that we will address fully through the UK national minimum wage equivalence in the regulations that will…17 Jan 2023HANSARDSeafarers' Wages Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship today, Mr Davies, and I thank all right hon. and hon. Members present for taking part. It was particularly gracious of the hon.…17 Jan 2023HANSARDSeafarers' Wages Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)As the hon. Member knows all too well, he and I are very much on the same page and would like the Insolvency Service to report as soon as possible, but it is an independent…17 Jan 2023HANSARDSeafarers' Wages Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I hope that what I am about to say will answer the hon. Gentleman’s question. The clause will make provision for publication of a determination to impose surcharges; set out how…17 Jan 2023HANSARDSeafarers' Wages Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)As previously, I will address the clauses and speak to the amendments, including those from the Opposition. Clause 5 allows the Secretary of State—in practice, operating through…17 Jan 2023HANSARDSeafarers' Wages Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)My hon. Friend makes a very sensible point. The Bill is a big step in the right direction in delivering for seafarers and countering some of the issues we have seen. It will…17 Jan 2023HANSARDSeafarers' Wages Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)Just before we finish, I want to say that it is a pleasure to have served under your chairmanship this afternoon, Ms Harris. We are both virgins on the Bill Committee Front…17 Jan 2023HANSARDSeafarers' Wages Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)I appreciate exactly what the hon. Gentleman is saying, but I think we have strayed a little from new clauses 5 and 7. The scope of the Bill is limited to ensuring that seafarers…17 Jan 2023HANSARDSeafarers' Wages Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)As the hon. Member will know, we are indeed legislating, but we are looking at the seafarers’ charter. The Government are not opposed to looking at this again if the voluntary…17 Jan 2023HANSARDSeafarers' Wages Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for those points. They are particularly important. I do not think that we would be here today if it was not for her huge campaigning efforts on behalf of…17 Jan 2023