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Marine and Coastal Access Bill [HL]

If I speak first, the Minister can answer both of us at the same time. There are a great many government amendments here. I have waded through to see if I could pick any holes in them. I am afraid I was defeated; they look largely sensible. I was particularly pleased to see the reciprocal nature of the arrangements to enable officers to use their enforcement powers in other areas of the UK where they do not have jurisdiction, so an enforcement officer can give chase outside his area to carry out his enforcement powers. I have a question that takes matters a step further. I am not sure whether the Minister has alluded to this. If an enforcement officer is patrolling within his boundary and sees an activity outside it that he should enforce if it is within his jurisdiction, presumably he would ring up the neighbouring country’s enforcement officers and say, "An activity is going on that is wrong". The other country might say, "We cannot deal with it because we have nobody in the area. Can you deal with it?". Will the reciprocal arrangement work like that, allowing permission to be given to deal with something across a boundary?