Fisheries Bill [Lords] – in a Public Bill Committee at 11:30 am on 10 September 2020.
Victoria Prentis
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This Clause introduces schedule 2, which extends to foreign vessels a wide range of secondary legislation made by the UK Government and, at their request, Welsh Ministers and the Northern Irish Department. It will make it clear that foreign fishing boats are bound by the same regulations as UK fishing boats. Under the common fisheries policy, the UK was prevented in most cases from applying its local rules to vessels from other EU member states. The clause and schedule 2 seek to rectify that, ensuring a fairer approach to foreign vessels that—subject to negotiations, of course—are granted access to fish in UK waters.
Luke Pollard
Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The set of amendments to the Clause and the schedule relate an awful lot to the Undersized Velvet Crabs Order 1989. There will be some concern, after only a cursory glance at the amendments and the schedule, that the Government are permitting the taking of undersized crabs, which would obviously be contrary to the principles of sustainability that we have spoken about. I will be grateful if the Minister sets out the intent behind the undersized velvet crabs amendments in a wee bit more detail.
Victoria Prentis
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Mr McCabe, would you like me to deal with this now or when we deal with the amendments?
Steve McCabe
Labour, Birmingham, Selly Oak
It is probably better to deal with it when we get to the amendments.
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A parliamentary bill is divided into sections called clauses.
Printed in the margin next to each clause is a brief explanatory `side-note' giving details of what the effect of the clause will be.
During the committee stage of a bill, MPs examine these clauses in detail and may introduce new clauses of their own or table amendments to the existing clauses.
When a bill becomes an Act of Parliament, clauses become known as sections.
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