My Lords, I am very grateful for the short contributions from both noble Baronesses today. I am relieved and grateful for the support of both Benches and I recognise the enormous amount of work that has gone on behind the scenes to bring the Bill to where it is today. The noble Baroness, Lady Scott, showed exemplary diligence as we took the Bill through, and I reassure her that I did this all the way through: sometimes, it just takes a little time to get the amendments drafted and through the system. Hence, they did not come back to your Lordships’ House; they went to the Commons, but I think we can take full credit for them.

On the noble Baroness’s detailed question about Amendment 36, on whether the amounts are additional, we absolutely expect that they would be. If needed, we would provide guidance in that area. We hope that there will not be significant additional amounts of money flowing into this area, because if there are, we will have failed in our endeavours; but I will certainly ensure that we provide appropriate guidance and that that money is additional to the money that is already spent on seafarers’ welfare at ports.

On refusal of access to ports, we are satisfied that the sector is aware of where refusal of access is appropriate when relating to whether or not an equivalence declaration is in place. The vessel operator will often know before it will have left the port because, often, many of these vessels are on short journeys. Of course, there will be circumstances, as there always are, when, for humanitarian or environmental reasons, one would provide access to port to any vessel, whether that would be one covered by this Bill or not.

On the broader measures raised by the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor—and I welcome her to transport; this was, I am sure, a baptism of fire going straight into this Bill—we are working at pace on all of the elements in the nine-point plan. We are looking at research on roster patterns. The seafarers’ charter is quite well developed, and I hope to have more on that soon. We have had discussions with our French counterparts: I have met the Minister twice, and we are due to have another meeting shortly to make progress with our neighbours in France to see what we can do to match up with the legislation that they have already placed in their Parliament. Of course, the noble Baroness will have seen that my colleagues in the Department for Business and Trade have launched their consultation on a code of practice on “fire and rehire”. Having said all that, I beg to move.

Motion agreed.