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Coastguard Modernisation

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Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

531 c506-23 

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for Transport

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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Proceeding contributions

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 531 c506-8 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I should like to make a statement on the Government's intentions for ta...

Maria Eagle | 531 c508-10 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his statement today, and for giving me early sight of it. I als...

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Bill Esterson | 531 c513 (Link to this contribution) The news that Crosby coastguard is to close comes as a bitter blow to staff and to the public in my ...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 531 c513-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman talks of ““using the existing network””, but, as I have just explained, there are...

Brandon Lewis | 531 c513 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will not be surprised to learn that I am disappointed that Great Yarmouth will ...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 531 c513 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for the way in which he has dealt with the issue. We certainly hope ...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 531 c512-3 (Link to this contribution) On the safety issue, the hon. Gentleman will know that the proposal in the original consultation was...

Speaker | 531 c513 (Link to this contribution) Order. A great many Members wish to contribute. If questions and answers are shorter, most of them w...

Iain McKenzie | 531 c512 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State comment on two points along the same lines as questions already asked? F...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 531 c512 (Link to this contribution) I understand my hon. Friend's specific local concerns; she has campaigned extremely hard on behalf o...

Sheryll Murray | 531 c512 (Link to this contribution) I did not hear an awful lot about safety in the Secretary of State's statement, but I did hear an aw...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 531 c510-2 (Link to this contribution) I do not remember the hon. Lady being quite so sanctimonious about briefing during the years that sh...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 531 c515 (Link to this contribution) The Daedalus site is certainly one of the sites being considered by the agency as a possible locatio...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 531 c515 (Link to this contribution) While I obviously have sympathy for Clyde and Forth, I am, of course, over the moon for Stornoway an...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 531 c515 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, and I also thank him on behalf of my hon. Friend the shipping M...

Greg Knight | 531 c515 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend and his ministerial team for listening to the representations that I, a...

Louise Ellman | 531 c514 (Link to this contribution) There is widespread concern at the prospect of the closure of coastguard stations, especially among ...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 531 c514 (Link to this contribution) As my right hon. and learned Friend will appreciate, given that we have decided to retain one statio...

Caroline Dinenage | 531 c515 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the news that there will still be a station in the Solent area, which, after all, is one o...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 531 c514 (Link to this contribution) First, let me restate my gratitude to the Select Committee for the time and trouble that it took ove...

Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 531 c514 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend predicted huge disappointment, and in that respect at least I can agree with hi...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 531 c518 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Lady had listened more carefully, she would have understood that there is no difference ...

Nia Griffith | 531 c517-8 (Link to this contribution) Choosing to close one of each pair is more like a party game—or ““The Apprentice””—than any rational...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 531 c517 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that there was that outbreak of cross-party consensus. My hon. Friend is right that the co...

Guto Bebb | 531 c517 (Link to this contribution) I warmly congratulate the Secretary of State on his announcement today, which is most welcome in rel...

Martin Caton | 531 c516 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has completely failed to justify his decision to close Swansea and keep Milfo...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 531 c516 (Link to this contribution) As I said to my right hon. Friend the Member for East Yorkshire (Mr Knight) a few moments ago, I rec...

Jim Shannon | 531 c516-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his statement and the hard work he has clearly done. I also want ...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 531 c517 (Link to this contribution) I am glad to be able to tell the hon. Gentleman that we consider that the issue of the potential clo...

Sarah Newton | 531 c516 (Link to this contribution) When the Government brought forward the original proposals, I greatly appreciated that they clearly ...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 531 c516 (Link to this contribution) The consultation is about the parts of this proposal that differ from the previous proposal that is ...

Peter Aldous | 531 c519-20 (Link to this contribution) I endorse the comments of my hon. Friend and constituency neighbour the Member for Great Yarmouth (B...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 531 c519 (Link to this contribution) We have taken account of all concerns that have been expressed to us through the consultation proces...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 531 c520 (Link to this contribution) The Humber station already covers the coastline of Norfolk and part of Suffolk, and the people worki...

John Leech | 531 c518 (Link to this contribution) The shipping Minister should be applauded for the fact that the consultation process has led to the ...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 531 c518 (Link to this contribution) We have already set out how the local stations will operate, with 23 full-time equivalent staff. The...

Frank Doran | 531 c518 (Link to this contribution) I am obviously very pleased that there will still be a coastguard station at Aberdeen, but I am deep...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 531 c518-9 (Link to this contribution) I understand the hon. Gentleman's concern, and I appreciate the measured way in which he has present...

Sarah Wollaston | 531 c519 (Link to this contribution) Twenty-five staff are employed at the Brixham maritime co-ordination rescue centre. I pay tribute to...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 531 c519 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for the measured way in which she makes her point. First, her consti...

Stephen Twigg | 531 c519 (Link to this contribution) There will be considerable anger in Liverpool at the Secretary of State's announcement today. Can he...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 531 c521 (Link to this contribution) No. I have made it clear that that will be outside the scope of the coming consultation. My hon. Fri...

Alan Reid | 531 c521 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the retention of both Stornoway and Shetland on a 24-hour basis, which is a big improvemen...

Steve Rotheram | 531 c521 (Link to this contribution) Well, well, what a surprise! Faced with the choice, a Tory Minister decides to close a facility in L...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 531 c521 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I am guilty of making a rod for my own back, Mr Deputy Speaker. I mentioned the cruise liner...

Albert Owen | 531 c521 (Link to this contribution) First, I pay tribute to all the volunteers, coastguards and full-time search and rescue crews operat...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 531 c521 (Link to this contribution) Yes, of course, that process is already under way.

Lord Hart of Tenby | 531 c520 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome the news that, subject to the consultation, Milford Haven will remain open. Will th...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 531 c520 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to congratulate all those who have taken part in the process for the measured way in whic...

Lord Whitehead | 531 c520 (Link to this contribution) When the Minister was proposing two marine operations centres, he proposed to have 96 staff at the S...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 531 c520 (Link to this contribution) Neither. The point about reducing the proposal to a single marine operations centre is that resource...

Iain Stewart | 531 c522 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome the Secretary of State's statement. I am a member of the Select Committee on Tra...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 531 c522 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that comment, and I can give him that reassurance. I can assure ...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 531 c523 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to be repetitious, Mr Deputy Speaker, but those stations will be working fully networked ...

Julie Hilling | 531 c523 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State said that he had listened to the consultations. All the coastguard stations s...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 531 c522 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend and to the Committee for the work that it did. I suspect that he may...

Jonathan Edwards | 531 c522 (Link to this contribution) What discussions has the Secretary of State had with the new Welsh Government about the proposal to ...

Julian Huppert | 531 c522 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the improvements to the original proposals that were floating around for some years. I par...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 531 c523 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes the important point that the uncertainty that this process has inevitably introd...

Fiona O'Donnell | 531 c523 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful for your generosity in calling me, Mr Deputy Speaker, given that my Public B...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 531 c523 (Link to this contribution) No, I am afraid not, as a very extensive consultation has taken place. It lasted for 20 weeks, which...

Mark Lazarowicz | 531 c522-3 (Link to this contribution) Given what the Secretary of State told my hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeen North (Mr Doran) about...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 531 c515-6 (Link to this contribution) What my right hon. Friend must take into account is that there will be a marine operations centre in...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 531 c522 (Link to this contribution) No, I have received no representations about the choice between Swansea and Milford Haven.

Subjects

Costs Management Public expenditure Rescue services Reorganisation Maritime and Coastguard Agency HM Coastguard

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