Fisheries Bill [HL]

My Lords, I support both amendments in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Whitchurch; ...

I have not participated in these debates, but I wanted to support this amendment because of the e...

My Lords, I concur with the sentiments of the previous speaker. However, I fear that the amendmen...

My Lords, I rise briefly to support Amendment 24 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness for her proposed Amendments 24 and 29, which would ...

My Lords, my noble friend gave a very helpful reply, but I was involved with safety of the fishin...

My Lords, the whole point about sustainability is that we have moved, as I said in an earlier dis...

I thank the Minister for giving me a chance to ask—

I had not finished, actually, but I will sit down.

Thank you. I have a further question in relation to the point raised by the noble Earl, Lord Cait...

I wrote to your Lordships, and I can read what I said in that letter about the size of the fleet,...

My Lords, we have had a very interesting discussion arising from these amendments. I am very grat...

My Lords, I am grateful for the opportunity to debate some issues that have not yet been covered ...

My Lords, I do not have a great deal to add to the words of the noble Baroness, who has obviously...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for enabling me to wrap up why the Government feel tha...

Perhaps I could just follow up on a couple of the things that the Minister stated are important. ...

I might need to clarify this, but on the noble Lord’s first point, using “to fish” as a verb refe...

My Lords—

I think the noble Baroness will want to talk about this issue on Report. Perhaps I now regret tak...

On the question of balance, social and economic questions tend to take care of themselves because...

That is a very intriguing aspect of an issue that we will wrestle with on Report, but we are all ...

I had a question about whether the objectives were effectively a reserved area, or a devolved are...

Again, I will probably need to take some advice, possibly legal. The management of fisheries is d...

There are still some things to answer in respect of the point raised by the noble Lord, Lord Teve...

This piece of work is an honest endeavour. Yes, the issues are devolved unless they are internati...

My Lords, I am very grateful to have had the opportunity to debate what I thought were non-contro...

Moved by

Lord Cameron of Dillington

28: After Clause 1, insert the following new Clau...

My Lords, this amendment largely speaks for itself. It is all very well having all the noble obje...

My Lords, I speak in support of my noble friend’s amendment, and apologise for not being here on ...

My Lords, I declare my interest again today—if I may do it once, rather than each time I speak. A...

My Lords, perhaps I might seek clarification from the noble Lord, Lord Cameron. As I read his ame...

My Lords, as far as I am concerned, I am dealing only with coastal fisheries and marine fish.

My Lords, I looked at this very carefully as it is a fairly concise amendment. I picked up on the...

My Lords, I see the need for something like the amendment tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Cameron,...

My Lords, I strongly support the amendment. It is obvious common sense. When I first read the Bil...

I too am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Cameron, for tabling Amendment 28, and to other noble L...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords for contributing to the short debate on this important...

I asked a question, but I do not require an answer now. In so far as the Department for Internati...

I will make a point very quickly. I was slightly disappointed in the Minister’s response when she...

In answer to my noble friend Lord Lansley’s question, it probably would be better if I wrote abou...

I thank noble Lords for taking part in the debate and, on the whole, for their support of the pri...

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

30: Clause 2, page 3, line 12, leave out “propo...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 30 in my name and Amendment 42 in the name of my noble frien...

My Lords, I support the amendments in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, and the noble L...

My Lords, I have put my name to Amendment 31 in this grouping because I think it is important tha...

My Lords, a few years ago I had the great pleasure of serving on the Energy and Environment Sub-C...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords, particularly the noble Baroness, for this debate. Thi...

I thank all noble Lords who have spoken on this issue, and the Minister for his response. We are ...

I assure the noble Baroness that, in the next group, I will very much take hold of that issue.