Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 19 June 1991.
Mr Archy Kirkwood
, Roxburgh and Berwickshire
12:00,
19 June 1991
Has the Secretary of State seen industry estimates that the combination of the tie-up provision with the unilateral imposition of the 90 mm square panel will reduce the landings of marketable haddock by as much as 55 per cent., and of whiting by as much as 75 per cent? If that does not justify assistance, I do not know what does. Will the Secretary of State personally take charge of the important negotiations at the next EC Fisheries Council on 8 July and guarantee that if the rest of the EC fishing fleet does not accept the 90 mm square panel regime he will withdraw it from this country as well?
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