Speeches by Eagle.

“We will try to keep them in touch going forwards, but it was for zero catches and we have exempted the people who would have been particularly hit. We are likely to see recovery in some of the species that will get through the bigger nets.”

“I know they did, but it was on zero-catch species, to try to preserve them, and on net sizes. We managed to exclude under-12-foot boats from those. It will affect EU fishers far more than ours and it will preserve some of the zero-catch species that will be able to get through the nets, which would not have got through…”

“Yes, they are also in the mix.”

“This is the EU-UK negotiations, not some of the rest of it. They were done under the terms of the trade and co-operation agreement, where there is a technical aspect to that.”

“We do what we can to interrogate what the situation is before ICES comes up with its calculations. Is it in July? It normally comes up with its calculations in July and we have a lot of contact with it before that. This year has been very challenging all round, because of the quota cuts, some of which are very difficul…”

“You will have to wait and see.”

“I suspect that an outcome that pleases nobody is probably the best we can do in some of those circumstances.”

“You are right.”

“It is coming out before Christmas.”

“Food price inflation is caused by a range of things. It is tracking above overall levels of inflation. We know that the bottom 20% of the income distribution spend much more as a percentage—I think it is nearly 15%—of their income on food compared with the top 20%, who spend 8.6% or something like that. Therefore, ther…”

“I know you are keen to get on to fishing, Chairman.”

“If we think that there are issues that might cause that kind of disjunction and that cannot be corrected by our very sophisticated supply chains, yes. Generally, stockpiling is not a very good use of food supplies. If the political situation were to change or there were some disjunction in world supply, that would be d…”

“I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2025. It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Hobhouse. These draft regulations were laid before the House on 3 November, and they introduce amendme…”

“I know that the responsible Minister, my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry East, has met the industry, and that workshops have been held over recent weeks to urgently and carefully identify options that address the issues that the hon. Member for Glastonbury and Somerton raises. We all need to find positive ways forw…”

“We are trying to take the scheme forward in a positive, iterative way. The consultation is not kicking the can down the road; it is recycling the can to see what we can do to ensure that the system is changed and iterated to fit more effectively, to drive up recycling rates in our economy and to move towards a circular…”

“I am happy to address some of the points that have been raised. I welcome that the official Opposition are broadly supportive of this system, and I will come to their questions in a minute. The Liberal Democrat spokesperson, the hon. Member for Glastonbury and Somerton, sounded like she was in favour on principle but n…”

“The right hon. Lady is correct, but I am trying to get this into perspective in terms of overall land use. There have been many calls for the land use framework to be published. I hope I can reassure hon. and right hon. Member that we will publish it early next year. Having looked at some of it, I am totally fascinated…”

“In the small amount of time left to me before the end of the debate, it is hard for me to answer the hon. Gentleman. It is not up to me to take decisions about local planning issues of that kind. That is what local plans are for. I thank the right hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills for securing the debate. I know that…”

“Of course it will be published, and it will be published this year. I cannot think of any Government who produce large reports on matters of interest in the week before the Budget. The hon. Gentleman can expect to see it this year, as my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State told the EFRA Committee in evidence, I th…”

“Of course it will be published.”