Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture, Fisheries and Food – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 19 February 1981.
Is the hon. Gentleman aware that neither my hon. Friend the Member for Berwick and East Lothian (Mr. Robertson) nor I take any pleasure from the continued action by some fishermen in Scottish ports? Is he further aware that, although we welcome the setting up of the anti-fish dumping committee, we think that the committee is no substitute for Government action to tackle the crisis in the industry? Has he studied the figures published this morning by Associated Fisheries, which detail the effect of the reduced catch on fish processing? How many more hundreds of jobs will be lost in the industry before the Government take action? May we have a statement next week?