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“We can come back to you.”

“Minister Eagle is leading this work, and she has met with a number of the organisations. I do not think that we have a specific problem.”

“That is a very good question. David, do you want to come in on that?”

“It will be broad, and we are looking across the piece at how we can best leverage this money to help those communities.”

“Sure. We have just finished a consultation on extending restrictions within 42 English MPAs, marine protected areas. We are doing that in a careful way that follows the science. David, do you want to say something?”

“We want to look at new technology and equipment to modernise fleets. We want to look at training and skills. We also want to look at promoting and supporting the seafood sector, which obviously will benefit from any agreement we get on SPS because at the moment it is either very difficult or, frankly, in some cases, im…”

“Angela Eagle is leading the work on this, but I have also met with Mike Cohen from the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations. The fishing coastal growth fund is at the top of the Committee’s discussions and we are still working on the details of how that works. We are looking at the Pride in Place MHCLG fund…”

“Let us take this away and come back to you and tell you when that is going to happen.”

“I have not, no.”

“Let me have a discussion with Baroness Hayman about that and come back to the Committee.”

“You mentioned how sophisticated Germany is. If we have a successful SPS agreement, as part of it we would then have access to the EU system that we lost. I would suggest that would bring benefits rather than the opposite.”

“Thank you for the report that you laid on this, and for shining a light on this. I know you did a visit to Dover. Emily has more detail on this.”

“It would be a cross-Governmental effort, and a lot of the work will have to be done in my Department. We are having conversations about how we do that across Government.”

“Agri-tech is an interesting area, and if we do want to boost profitability, we want to be at the forefront, but I have not thought about the issue you have raised in any detail.”

“That is quite a detailed question.”

“Ideally, we would not have too much, because it would just add to the load. Obviously, we are developing our guidance—it is not just regulation and legislation—and the EU is doing the same. We have had this discussion since Brexit. It is moving on both sides.”

“That is the stat that I was looking for, thank you.”

“Thank you very much for the question. Let me make some broader points, and then I will turn to Emily. Obviously, the EU reset as a whole is a cross-Governmental effort. I am a member of the Cabinet Sub-Committee, the Europe Committee. As I said in my opening for the Department, it is a big priority because SPS is obvio…”

“Thank you.”

“I can come back to you on the particular statistic, but the statistic I have here is from the recycling industry itself. There will be other broader benefits as well.”