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Marine and Coastal Access Bill [HL]

My Lords, I have some sympathy with Amendment 62, proposed by the noble Baroness. If something in the marine policy statement is going to lead to bad decisions, and if that is then recognised, as things stand the mechanism is that there will be a review to try and update it. I think that this amendment is trying to say, "All applications must be suspended until we’ve got this right. Because we don’t want the applications in the pipeline to be based on those bad decisions, let’s suspend part or all of the MPS until the review has taken place and the right framework is put in place". I support this amendment; there has to be some sort of mechanism for getting this right, either in the Bill or within guidance. I will be interested to know how the Minister proposes to deal with this.