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Greenock Coastguard Station

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

529 c247-58 

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for Transport

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Mark Lazarowicz | 529 c249 (Link to this contribution) Given the age profile, will not many of those working in such stations have done so for many years a...

Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 529 c250 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. I am trying to get the Minister to provide more detail on the reasoning...

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Eilidh Whiteford | 529 c250 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the hon. Lady's concern about stations on all parts of the coastline echoes her comments abo...

Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 529 c249-50 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is obviously correct that, often, not just one individual working in a household will...

Mark Lazarowicz | 529 c250 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way, and I assure her that this is my last intervention. ...

Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 529 c248-9 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend, and I commend the work that he has undertaken in relation to the Forth ...

Mark Lazarowicz | 529 c248 (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this debate. Does she agree that one of the characte...

Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 529 c247-8 (Link to this contribution) The constituents of mine who work at Greenock and other members of staff—I have spoken to them on se...

Bill Esterson | 529 c247 (Link to this contribution) I add my congratulations to my hon. Friend on securing this important debate on the future of Greeno...

Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 529 c249 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. The terms of the civil service relocation package do n...

Bill Esterson | 529 c249 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend talked about whether staff would relocate. I have heard no indication in the comments...

Bill Esterson | 529 c251 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady made the same point about local knowledge when speaking about the growth of shipping i...

Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 529 c250 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Lady. I am in no way trying to set one coastguard station against another; wha...

Mike Penning | 529 c251-3 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to respond to the debate initiated by the hon. Member for North Ayrshire and Arran ...

Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 529 c251 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his helpful intervention. In my constituency, a number of marinas have op...

Bill Esterson | 529 c253 (Link to this contribution) I remember the exchange about the nine co-ordination centres extremely well. It was an informal prop...

Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 529 c247 (Link to this contribution) I am very pleased to have secured this debate today on a topic of concern to many in my coastal cons...

Iain Stewart | 529 c247 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Lady on securing this important debate. I am a member of the Transport Commi...

Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 529 c247 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention. I hope that the views expressed by coastguards at Greenock and ...

Sarah Newton | 529 c254 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Member for North Ayrshire and Arran (Katy Clark) for securing this debate....

Speaker | 529 c254 (Link to this contribution) I cannot share anything and I cannot offer any response, but I have a feeling that the Minister migh...

Mike Penning | 529 c254-5 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am sure that we understand exactly what my hon. Friend is trying to say to ...

Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 529 c255 (Link to this contribution) I asked a number of questions about the criteria that were used. The Minister might not be able to g...

Mike Penning | 529 c255 (Link to this contribution) Of course. I was still responding to the intervention made by my hon. Friend the Member for Truro an...

John McDonnell | 529 c255 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for arriving so late to the debate and I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. It ...

Mike Penning | 529 c255-6 (Link to this contribution) I hope that there would not be compulsory redundancies, but I cannot give that commitment and I am n...

Eilidh Whiteford | 529 c256 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way?

Mike Penning | 529 c256 (Link to this contribution) I want to clarify the point that the hon. Member for North Ayrshire and Arran mentioned in her inter...

Bill Esterson | 529 c257 (Link to this contribution) I assume that the Minister has finished with the previous interventions. Let me make a few points ab...

Mike Penning | 529 c257 (Link to this contribution) No, I did not.

Eilidh Whiteford | 529 c256 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the Minister that it is very important that we have a coastguard service that is fit fo...

Mike Penning | 529 c256-7 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to disappoint the hon. Lady, but the Scottish National party has absolutely no chance ...

Mike Penning | 529 c258 (Link to this contribution) May I just place it on the record that I openly said at Crosby and as I went around the country that...

Bill Esterson | 529 c257-8 (Link to this contribution) Well, he will get his chance in a moment to answer my points, but that has categorically been stated...

Speaker | 529 c258 (Link to this contribution) We are extremely grateful to the hon. Gentleman. The Minister is winding up the debate on the future...

Mike Penning | 529 c253-4 (Link to this contribution) That is exactly the point I am trying to make: this has not come out of the blue. The coastguard rep...

Subjects

Rescue services Maritime and Coastguard Agency HM Coastguard Greenock

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