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Coastguard Modernisation

No. I have made it clear that that will be outside the scope of the coming consultation. My hon. Friend said that the Clyde station covers a ““huge area of sea””. I understand that it is difficult to get out of that mode of thinking, but that is not the way to think about a networked 21st-century coastguard service. Belfast has been twinned with Clyde. The station in Belfast has the working local knowledge of the huge area of sea that has previously been covered by the Clyde station, and the arrangements that we have put in place are resilient and will serve us well for the 21st century.