Speeches by Kirkham.

“5. What recent progress the client board has made on consulting hon. Members on the restoration and renewal programme.”

“I thank my hon. Friend for that reply. As a new Member, I was very lucky to have a restoration and renewal tour. My question was more about how many MPs and Lords, since the change in Government, have been able to have a look round and have some information about the plans going ahead, and is there any idea of the time…”

“One year ago yesterday, my constituent James Henderson was killed with other aid workers from World Central Kitchen when taking humanitarian aid into Gaza. Jim’s family have told me that he would want confirmation from our Government that we are taking all conceivable steps to make sure that aid, power and supplies are…”

“I also have a question about the recreational fleet. Are you looking at imposing any kind of measures upon them?”

“Thank you. I have another question, if I may, Chair, about spurdog. Apparently, the maximum landing size is 100cm and fishers are having to discard quite a lot of large fish. Again, that is affecting them with the bycatch, and there is a question of why that could not be introduced to market. Obviously, you are discard…”

“I have just one more question, about sole. The Cornish industry feels that more sampling of sole could show that some stocks were linked and maybe lead to an argument for increasing the sole TAC, which would open up fishing of monkfish and megrim. Is that something that you are looking at as well?”

“It is a very specific question.”

“Yes, what is the gap for pollack?”

“We are hoping for an announcement in July.”

“Janet, you mentioned July when you were talking about the SFIs. Just to try to get a bit more detail about the potential timeline for the new system, do you think July 2025 might be a realistic prospect for it reopening?”

“You are making big decisions, then, for fishers on not very much data, which does not seem particularly satisfactory, does it?”

“Because the anecdotal evidence is very different: it is very clear, so that is causing the frustration really. If there is a big gap, could we know?”

“On the actual system, there was something that said that there would be six weeks’ notice before it closed. Was that a mistake on the form on the system, then?”

“I was not in the room for the start of your answer about pollack, so I apologise for going back to pollack, but I am from Cornwall. I understand that it went down to zero TAC. The compensation ended this year for the fishers, and they are reporting issues with bycatch, which is stopping them fishing for other things. T…”

“I think the funds put into the port health authority were just to check 20% of the time. Border Force has so many other checks to do, and they are not experts in this. I think they were feeling—well, I will not put words in their mouths, but it looked like they were being slightly overwhelmed. Would you reconsider the …”

“That is different, though.”

“The illegal meat smuggling that is coming in seems to be on quite a large scale and it seems to overwhelm the resources that are there to stop it. Could you comment on that, because it seems to be quite a large gap?”

“Thank you.”

“Does the Minister agree that it is important that the affected members receive those statements to allow informed decision making? The Government have worked to minimise financial detriment to those affected, but this issue is part of the mess we have been clearing up. We have had record investments into pharmacies and…”

“My constituency has a very successful passenger branch line, but there also used to be a freight line. There is a tiny piece of track that, quite inexpensively, could be reopened to carry tin and lithium out through the docks. Will the Minister meet me to discuss the possibility of doing that?”