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Coastguard Modernisation

I respect the right hon. Gentleman's views, but we took this action because the original proposals were flawed. They were not my proposals; they were the last Government's proposals. The point of introducing the resilience that does not currently exist is to end the scaremongering about safety. Safety standards are not good today, but they will be good from now on because of that resilience. In most of the coastguard stations that I visited around the country, including stations in Scotland, I was told, ““We know that we have to cut the number of stations to nine or 10.””