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Marine and Coastal Access Bill [HL]

My Lords, I add my voice of thanks and appreciation to the Minister for the way in which he has carried this matter forward and for his amendments. Can he say to what extent he is carrying with him any of the other EU countries? It would be interesting to know how far their thinking is travelling along the same road and whether their policy is developing to the same extent. While I am on my feet, perhaps I may put a very small but illustrative point to the Minister. Other noble Lords may well have seen, as I did, a photograph which appeared some weeks ago in the Daily Telegraph of a rather remarkable golden sea horse. I recollect that the caption referred to a very rare colony of sea horses that are threatened with extinction as a consequence of leisure activity—notably sailing, boating and anchoring of sea craft. At some time, perhaps not at this juncture, will the Minister look into this question and discuss with Natural England the measures that are urgently needed to protect this rare colony?