Part of Fisheries Bill [Lords] – in a Public Bill Committee at 2:30 pm on 15 September 2020.
Luke Pollard
Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
2:30,
15 September 2020
I am grateful to the Minister for setting that out. I agree that there has been a great deal of scrutiny, but that scrutiny has found enforcement gaps, enforcement problems and a lower number of interventions and hours at sea. There is more work to be done there, but on the basis that we have discussed this and the Minister can be in no doubt that there is a better job to be done than is done already, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the motion.
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