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Adjournment debate on Wednesday, 2 February 2011, in the House of Commons, led by Sarah Newton. The answering member was Mike Penning.

Coastguard Service

Westminster Hall adjournment debate on coastguard services.

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
522 c296-322WH 
Session
2010-12
Department
Department for Transport
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
Proceeding contributions
Mike Penning | 522 c321WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will have to bear with me because I have two minutes left. We should not sit bac...
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John McDonnell | 522 c321-2WH (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Hancock. The Minister has made reference to the unions agreeing with his pro...
Speaker | 522 c322WH (Link to this contribution) That is not a point of order, Mr McDonnell, but an issue for debate. There are 30 seconds left.
Mike Penning | 522 c322WH (Link to this contribution) This is a very healthy debate. I have worked with the unions and sat down with them. They know that ...
Speaker | 522 c322WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sorry that I had to cut in on you, Minister. Can Members who are leaving do so quietly a...
Speaker | 522 c322WH (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to say that we can start in advance of 4.15 as most of the participants in the debate...
Mike Penning | 522 c320-1WH (Link to this contribution) I gave way previously because I specifically referred to Falmouth. If we are to go forward, we have ...
Mike Penning | 522 c320WH (Link to this contribution) The case that we heard earlier, which was brilliantly made on behalf of Falmouth, referred to the fa...
Albert Owen | 522 c320WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way on that point?
Mike Penning | 522 c320WH (Link to this contribution) It does not. The knowledge is in Falmouth. The international rescue knowledge is based there. I know...
Sarah Wollaston | 522 c320WH (Link to this contribution) I take issue with the Minister because I know that Brixham coastguard takes over from Falmouth in in...
Mike Penning | 522 c320WH (Link to this contribution) If Falmouth goes down, the relevant knowledge does not exist anywhere else.
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 522 c313-4WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Hancock. I will dispense with the normal formalities to allow other people to speak. ...
Bill Esterson | 522 c315-6WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Truro and Falmouth (Sarah Newton) on securing this debate. I trie...
Peter Aldous | 522 c314-5WH (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hancock, and I thank my hon. Friend the Member f...
Speaker | 522 c316WH (Link to this contribution) I apologise to hon. Members who have been trying to catch my eye. I would have liked to give everyon...
Mike Penning | 522 c317WH (Link to this contribution) I am—not was—the Minister with responsibility for shipping.
Jim Fitzpatrick | 522 c316-7WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Hancock. It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair. The last time I saw you, you were p...
Jim Fitzpatrick | 522 c317-8WH (Link to this contribution) My apologies. The hon. Gentleman is the Minister with responsibility for shipping, which is a very g...
Speaker | 522 c318WH (Link to this contribution) Before I call the Minister, it would be remiss of me not to apologise to those who did not get an op...
Mike Penning | 522 c319WH (Link to this contribution) I will make some progress and, if there is time, I will take interventions. However, there have been...
Mike Penning | 522 c318-9WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Hancock. It is a pleasure to serve as the Minister with responsibility for shipping un...
Mike Penning | 522 c319-20WH (Link to this contribution) No, I will not give way because I did not do so before. I looked again at Scotland, where there was ...
Mike Penning | 522 c320WH (Link to this contribution) No, I will not. I have listened to the debate. To be fair, hon. Members asked for a debate and I nee...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 522 c309WH (Link to this contribution) I am heartened to hear that Liverpool and Belfast are not accepting the framework that the MCA has g...
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick | 522 c309WH (Link to this contribution) It is important to emphasise for the historical record that, in 1994, the then chief coastguard, Com...
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick | 522 c309WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Hancock. I will do so. Previous attempts by Governments to implement large-scale tech...
Speaker | 522 c309WH (Link to this contribution) Order. Ms Ritchie, I urge you to watch the time.
Ian Jnr Paisley | 522 c308WH (Link to this contribution) What an opportune time to get an intervention. In 1989, I was involved in an attempt to rescue two d...
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick | 522 c308WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely correct. Co-ordination and co-operation are vital, particularly on ...
Albert Owen | 522 c310-1WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Truro and Falmouth (Sarah Newton) on securing the debate. I raise...
Stephen Gilbert | 522 c309-10WH (Link to this contribution) I will make every effort to show atypical restraint in my remarks. I give notice to all colleagues t...
Speaker | 522 c309WH (Link to this contribution) Order. It is my intention to call Mr Gilbert, then Mr Owen and then Dr Wollaston. I will then try to...
Andrew George | 522 c312WH (Link to this contribution) One of the primary drivers—in fact the primary one, to go by page 16 of the consultation document—is...
Sarah Wollaston | 522 c312WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman. Of course, we have the equivalent of 22 full-time and highly skilled wat...
Adrian Sanders | 522 c312WH (Link to this contribution) Local knowledge is an extremely important point from a west country perspective. I wonder where some...
Sarah Wollaston | 522 c312WH (Link to this contribution) I want to talk about Brixham maritime rescue co-ordination centre and its importance. Last year it c...
Albert Owen | 522 c311-2WH (Link to this contribution) I am not going to take any interventions. I apologise, but I know that some hon. Members have made t...
Andrew George | 522 c311WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way on that point?
Speaker | 522 c305WH (Link to this contribution) Order. The Front Benchers have decided that they will take no more than 10 minutes each, so if every...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 522 c304-5WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has made an incredibly important point. In the west coast of Scotland coastguard area...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 522 c302-3WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair today, Mr Hancock. I will try to adhere to your request to ...
Mark Lazarowicz | 522 c303WH (Link to this contribution) I have been in another Committee, which is why I was not here earlier. This issue is important to my...
Speaker | 522 c303WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I think that you are pushing your luck there with that one. That intervention was more like a...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 522 c303-4WH (Link to this contribution) It is far from clear what criteria have been used to develop these proposals. I hope that, when the ...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 522 c304WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has made an important point. The principles that are pushing this process are not the ...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 522 c304WH (Link to this contribution) Indeed. The hon. Gentleman has made some powerful points. People who have not visited a coastguard ...
Bill Esterson | 522 c304WH (Link to this contribution) A similar point has been made to me by the staff at Crosby coastguard station in my constituency, wh...
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick | 522 c307-8WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention. She is indeed correct. The Northern Ireland coastguard ...
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick | 522 c307WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Truro and Falmouth (Sarah Newton) on securing the debate. My con...
Lady Hermon | 522 c307WH (Link to this contribution) Let me tell hon. Members, and particularly the Minister, that it is rare for any subject to unite al...
Baroness Coffey | 522 c306-7WH (Link to this contribution) I appreciate that. I was one of the hon. Members who submitted a letter requesting to speak before t...
Speaker | 522 c307WH (Link to this contribution) Yes, it is a compliment. Only you would have got away with that.
Speaker | 522 c307WH (Link to this contribution) Order. Sylvia, you have a lot of charm, but you are pushing it to extremes.
Lady Hermon | 522 c307WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Hancock. I take that as a compliment.
Baroness Coffey | 522 c305-6WH (Link to this contribution) I shall do away with the niceties, apart from congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for Truro and...
Anne Marie Morris | 522 c300WH (Link to this contribution) I entirely endorse what my hon. Friend is saying about her concerns with regard to Falmouth. If Brix...
Speaker | 522 c300WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind Members that 12 Members want to take part in the debate. Interventions must be short...
David Cairns | 522 c300WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Lady on making such a powerful case. Another recent high profile incident wa...
Sarah Newton | 522 c300WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that helpful intervention. The Falmouth coastguards have developed effect...
Sarah Newton | 522 c299WH (Link to this contribution) I should like to make some progress. I appreciated the meeting that I had with Sir Alan Massey and h...
Sarah Newton | 522 c299WH (Link to this contribution) I will give way in a moment. Nevertheless, Falmouth should continue with its 24-hour cover as the le...
Andrew George | 522 c298WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. Falmouth is a pivotal station, and not having the skills th...
Sarah Newton | 522 c298-9WH (Link to this contribution) When I come to that point, I will make a suggestion that I hope will be carefully considered. The F...
Sarah Newton | 522 c302WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Hancock. Yesterday the MCA team told me that the location of someone calling 999 for ...
Speaker | 522 c302WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I ask Members to be a bit more careful and respectful of the other Members who want to speak....
Sarah Newton | 522 c302WH (Link to this contribution) I will just make a bit more progress.
Sarah Newton | 522 c301-2WH (Link to this contribution) I am sure that everybody listening to this debate greatly appreciates that intervention and the reas...
Bill Esterson | 522 c302WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Member give way on that point?
Mike Penning | 522 c301WH (Link to this contribution) I will not interrupt my hon. Friend for too long, but the assertion that the response time will be i...
Speaker | 522 c301WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you for that clarification.
Ian Jnr Paisley | 522 c301WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady talks about the local knowledge of the Falmouth coastguards, but that is something tha...
Sarah Newton | 522 c301WH (Link to this contribution) I very much agree with the hon. Gentleman. I am very sceptical about the capabilities of some of the...
Sarah Newton | 522 c300-1WH (Link to this contribution) That is just the sort of point that I was hoping that hon. Members from all parties could make to th...
Andrew George | 522 c297WH (Link to this contribution) On the question of the cost savings, does my hon. Friend not agree that a comparison needs to be mad...
Sarah Newton | 522 c296WH (Link to this contribution) I welcome the hon. Gentleman's intervention, but I do not agree with him. I am assured by the MCA th...
Lady Hermon | 522 c297WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Lady most sincerely on securing this debate. In Northern Ireland we have an ...
Sarah Newton | 522 c297WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention, but I think it best to leave it to the Minister to ans...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 522 c296WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Lady on securing this important debate. She mentions the possibility of an i...
Sarah Newton | 522 c298WH (Link to this contribution) I shall come to that point later, but I refute what the hon. Gentleman says.
Sarah Newton | 522 c297WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for her contribution. I am reassured by the commitment given by the chief exe...
Sarah Newton | 522 c297-8WH (Link to this contribution) I shall make a little more progress before giving way again. The MCA has developed its proposals ov...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 522 c298WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree with the assessment that I have heard from the MCA, which is that the pivot...
Sarah Newton | 522 c296WH (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hancock. I am pleased to have secured th...
Sarah Wollaston | 522 c312-3WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman. I agree. Currently, we have paired coastguard stations, which are direct...
Speaker | 522 c308WH (Link to this contribution) Order. We do not want a long debate about co-operation.
Bill Esterson | 522 c308-9WH (Link to this contribution) I represent the Liverpool coastguard station, so let me express a degree of solidarity across the Ir...
Subjects
Costs Modernisation Shipping Rescue services Maritime and Coastguard Agency
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