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Adjournment debate and Backbench debate on Thursday, 24 March 2011, in the House of Commons, led by Sarah Newton. The answering member was Mike Penning.

Coastguard Service

Twenty-third backbench debate (second half). Agreed to on question.

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
525 c335-84WH 
Session
2010-12
Department
Department for Transport
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
Proceeding contributions
Mike Penning | 525 c382WH (Link to this contribution) I will publish all the information we have.
Sarah Newton | 525 c382WH (Link to this contribution) I will pass that question straight on to the Minister to answer.
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Albert Owen | 525 c382WH (Link to this contribution) Had the Minister had more time, I am sure that he would have been able to answer this point, but doe...
Sarah Newton | 525 c381-2WH (Link to this contribution) On behalf of all hon. Members who have attended this afternoon's debate, I want to thank the Ministe...
Mike Penning | 525 c380-1WH (Link to this contribution) I am not going to give way, because I am really restricted on time. I apologise. I am not summing up...
Mike Penning | 525 c379-80WH (Link to this contribution) I take the point that my hon. Friend is making. I pay tribute to the family and personal experience ...
Sarah Newton | 525 c382WH (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the Minister has heard that. I had better let other hon. Members to intervene.
Sarah Newton | 525 c382WH (Link to this contribution) Like everyone else, I am reassured by what the Minister has said: saving lives is in his blood; he w...
Russell Brown | 525 c382WH (Link to this contribution) As the Minister would not allow me intervene, may I, through the hon. Lady, ask if the table-top exe...
Sarah Newton | 525 c382WH (Link to this contribution) I am sure we all agree that safety has to be the paramount consideration.
Bill Esterson | 525 c382WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady congratulated our colleagues, the hon. Members for Totnes (Dr Wollaston) and for Na h-...
Sarah Newton | 525 c383-4WH (Link to this contribution) That is right. As the Minister began by saying, it is the people of the country, as well as seafarer...
Stephen Gilbert | 525 c382-3WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to say that we owe it to the army of people who voluntarily protect life and...
Sarah Wollaston | 525 c372-3WH (Link to this contribution) I will cut my speech short, as other hon. Members wish to contribute. We are not disputing the need ...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 525 c369-72WH (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. We want this issue to be considered on a substantive motion on the Floor of the House on...
Andrew Percy | 525 c369WH (Link to this contribution) I just want to demonstrate that point. I am the only Member here from the Humber, and I will be unab...
Adrian Sanders | 525 c363-4WH (Link to this contribution) Many hon. Members have made precisely that point, and made it very well indeed. Assuming that it is...
Albert Owen | 525 c363WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a powerful point about the importance of coastguard volunteers and the RNLI...
Adrian Sanders | 525 c364-5WH (Link to this contribution) I will not, because I am trying to stick to the agreed time so that the Minister can make a full spe...
Speaker | 525 c366WH (Link to this contribution) There are still five or six people trying to catch my eye, so I would appreciate it if Members could...
Russell Brown | 525 c365-6WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Member for Truro and Falmouth (Sarah Newton) and her colleagues for securing this d...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 525 c369WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Truro and Falmouth (Sarah Newton) was absolutely right when she opened her speec...
Richard Drax | 525 c366-9WH (Link to this contribution) Mr Crausby, I will launch straight in. Thank you very much indeed for calling me and I offer my than...
Sheryll Murray | 525 c379WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister accept that although the kayaker or the group of young people barbecuing on a beac...
Jim Fitzpatrick | 525 c376WH (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the Minister is more up to date with the proposals. He is nodding and I am sure that ...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 525 c376WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has mentioned cuts. Is he aware of any cuts in the upper echelons of the MCA?
Jim Fitzpatrick | 525 c374-6WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair this afternoon, Mr Crausby. If I finish before 5.15, as I t...
Lord Hart of Tenby | 525 c373-4WH (Link to this contribution) Given the time available, I will restrict my comments entirely to the coastal community of Pembrokes...
Mike Penning | 525 c378-9WH (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman knows, I have been to the coastguard station at Crosby and the people there di...
Bill Esterson | 525 c377-8WH (Link to this contribution) I am glad that the Minister has said that staff do not have to worry about what happens. I know that...
Mike Penning | 525 c377WH (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Truro and Falmouth (Sarah Newton) for being so dilige...
Speaker | 525 c376WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I am afraid that there is no time for any other hon. Member to speak, because we need to give...
Albert Owen | 525 c355WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention, and I hope that the Minister will indeed respond on the issues ...
Sarah Newton | 525 c355WH (Link to this contribution) I appreciate that. I made it clear that I would not take interventions because, during the first deb...
Albert Owen | 525 c356WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for raising the issue of language. I wish to refer to the Wels...
Anne McGuire | 525 c355-6WH (Link to this contribution) The problem is not just phonetics or pronunciation. In Wales and in Scotland—the hon. Member for Na ...
Albert Owen | 525 c354WH (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. That will be my next point, but it does not detract from my first. My second point is t...
Louise Ellman | 525 c354WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend welcome the fact that the Transport Committee is about to conduct an investigati...
Albert Owen | 525 c354WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady would not take interventions, so she is pushing it, but I am a gentleman, and in a spi...
Sarah Newton | 525 c354WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Albert Owen | 525 c354WH (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that the hon. Lady is upset by some of the truths I have just said. Candidates made state...
Sarah Newton | 525 c354WH (Link to this contribution) I am very disappointed with the line that the hon. Gentleman is taking, because there is genuine con...
Adrian Sanders | 525 c362-3WH (Link to this contribution) May I say what a pleasure it is to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Crausby? It is disappointing t...
Lord Whitehead | 525 c361-2WH (Link to this contribution) I share my hon. Friend's concern. Indeed, if that is the basis on which the proposals were made, I b...
Louise Ellman | 525 c361WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend share my concern that the proposals could be based on cost savings rather than s...
Lord Whitehead | 525 c361WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a very important point about what the service consists of and the problems ...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 525 c361WH (Link to this contribution) Sometimes the issue is not the number of incidents. If we have one more Braer, we will have quite a ...
Sheryll Murray | 525 c358-9WH (Link to this contribution) I intend to put a different slant on the debate, and I declare a special interest as the wife of a f...
Speaker | 525 c358WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I will start the winding-up speeches at 5 o'clock. Shorter contributions will be needed if ev...
Albert Owen | 525 c356-8WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady for that intervention, but I have moved on from pronunciation to actu...
Sarah Wollaston | 525 c356WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman, but the problem is not always pronunciation. Sometimes there are pr...
Sarah Newton | 525 c336WH (Link to this contribution) Actually, I will not, as so many people want to speak. Sorry, Angus. The service underwent a major ...
Sarah Newton | 525 c335WH (Link to this contribution) It is an honour to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Crausby. I congratulate all my colleagues from ...
Greg Knight | 525 c338WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman at least give the Minister credit for extending the consultation period? At ...
Bill Esterson | 525 c338WH (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to address this debate under your chairmanship, Mr Crausby. I shall begin by congratula...
Sarah Newton | 525 c336-8WH (Link to this contribution) I will carry on so that the right hon. and learned Gentleman can get in to speak later. The MCA con...
Bill Esterson | 525 c338-9WH (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman makes an important point. Many residents in our communities have welcomed t...
Nia Griffith | 525 c339WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend and I come from areas of shifting sands. Does he agree that local knowledge is vital ...
Bill Esterson | 525 c339-40WH (Link to this contribution) The right hon. and learned Gentleman makes an important point about the importance of carrying out r...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 525 c339WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with everything that the hon. Gentleman has said about local knowledge. I wonder, however, w...
Bill Esterson | 525 c340WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point that builds on what others have said. There is also an issue r...
Mark Williams | 525 c340WH (Link to this contribution) On the point about leisure activities in tourist areas, I represent a large tract of the west Wales ...
Lady Hermon | 525 c340WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Bill Esterson | 525 c341WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady for her points because it reminds me that, of course, originally Live...
Lady Hermon | 525 c340-1WH (Link to this contribution) It is very nice of the hon. Gentleman to do so for someone who has come across the divide—from the m...
Bill Esterson | 525 c339WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a vital point. We have exactly the same issue around the coast of Liverpool, wh...
Mike Penning | 525 c341WH (Link to this contribution) Just for clarification, Liverpool was not excluded from the consultation; it was just not one of the...
Jim Shannon | 525 c347-8WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Truro and Falmouth (Sarah Newton) on bringing this matter to the ...
Lady Hermon | 525 c348-9WH (Link to this contribution) The energetic MP for North Down rises—it was awfully nice of the hon. Gentleman to call me that. I a...
Bill Esterson | 525 c344-5WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady. I am grateful to hon. Members for their interventions on that point,...
Peter Aldous | 525 c345-7WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Crausby. I am grateful to you for calling me e...
Jim Shannon | 525 c349WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for her contribution, which is very honest. The hon. Lady and I, with the SDL...
Lady Hermon | 525 c349WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for acknowledging that point.
Jim Shannon | 525 c349-50WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for that intervention. To move on slightly, there is also the issue of helicop...
Lady Hermon | 525 c350WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for taking a second intervention. I invite him to say something to the Me...
Jim Shannon | 525 c351WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention. She must have read my mind, or she has been reading my n...
Jim Shannon | 525 c351WH (Link to this contribution) Nobody can read it. The Minister and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland were in Northern I...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 525 c351-2WH (Link to this contribution) I was sent here to whinge on behalf of my constituents, and if a senior member of the Maritime and C...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 525 c352WH (Link to this contribution) The right hon. and learned Gentleman mentions the real estate at Forth, but is that not counter-prod...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 525 c352WH (Link to this contribution) I am always a bit nervous about the argument that one cannot take a decision on the merits because o...
Albert Owen | 525 c352-3WH (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the right hon. and learned Member for North East Fife (Sir Menzies ...
Bill Esterson | 525 c353WH (Link to this contribution) I asked the Minister to come to the House to make a statement so that we could have that cross-exami...
Albert Owen | 525 c353-4WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention; I am sure that the Minister heard what he sai...
Bill Esterson | 525 c341WH (Link to this contribution) I accept the Minister's point. I was merely expressing a concern raised by staff. To return to the p...
Andrew George | 525 c341WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making a very good case. A good thing that has come out of this particular exe...
Bill Esterson | 525 c343WH (Link to this contribution) I have it in writing from a serving coastguard officer who has asked me not to give his name, so I a...
Bill Esterson | 525 c343WH (Link to this contribution) I think that the Minister would like to intervene.
Bill Esterson | 525 c342-3WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. In a meeting that I attended with the chief executive a...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 525 c343WH (Link to this contribution) That statement shows unbelievable arrogance.
Bill Esterson | 525 c343WH (Link to this contribution) I am going to give way to my hon. Friend.
Louise Ellman | 525 c343WH (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether my hon. Friend is aware that the Select Committee, which is about to open an inquir...
Bill Esterson | 525 c343WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend, because I think that that is important. Staff are making those alle...
Greg Knight | 525 c344WH (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. He has been very generous in giving way and...
Bill Esterson | 525 c344WH (Link to this contribution) I think I made it clear earlier that it was a senior manager. I do not have the name with me now, be...
Lady Hermon | 525 c344WH (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to prolong this point, but in fairness I feel that I should put on the record that the ch...
Mike Penning | 525 c343-4WH (Link to this contribution) May I reiterate that any member of staff has the right not only to give evidence to the Select Commi...
Bill Esterson | 525 c344WH (Link to this contribution) As I said earlier, my constituent has indicated that he is concerned that if I give his name, or the...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 525 c344WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right not to give the name. He has parliamentary privilege and is using it wis...
Bill Esterson | 525 c344WH (Link to this contribution) I am happy to talk to my constituent further to find out the information but, as I said, I am not go...
Lord Whitehead | 525 c359-61WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for South East Cornwall (Sheryll Murray), who I believe k...
Mike Penning | 525 c349WH (Link to this contribution) I was due to meet the First Minister and the Deputy First Minister at my first engagement, but I had...
Mike Penning | 525 c343WH (Link to this contribution) If an accusation has been made against certain coastguard officers, will the hon. Gentleman indicate...
Subjects
Finance Modernisation Rescue services Reorganisation Maritime and Coastguard Agency
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