Westminster Hall
10 November 2026
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Westminster Hall House of Commons
Follow its sittings01:05 - 01:41
Speaker 1
Order. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Before I call Daniel Zeichner, it may be convenient for everybody to know we appear to have in addition to the mover of the motion, seven backbench contributors and a couple of people who I know wish to intervene. I'm not going to put a time limit on this state at this stage, it rather depends how long Mr Zeichner chooses to speak for, but I think we're probably looking at around maximum 7 minutes per person. And on that basis we probably ought to be able to get ev- anybody in.
If that changes, I'll let you know. Daniel Zeichner to move the motion please.
01:41 - 03:11
Speaker 2
Well, thank you, Sir Roger. And it's always a pleasure to serve with you in the chair. I beg to move that this house has considered the potential merits of a fishing and seafood sector strategy. And it's a pleasure to lead a debate on this important question. Before I begin, I should declare that I served as the independent chair of the process that produced the all-party parliamentary group on fisheries' recently published action plan for a thriving and sustainable UK fishing industry, a weighty tome that I shall put down, but it is the stimulus for this debate.
And I pay tribute to the group's co-chairs, my honorable friend the member for Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes and the right honorable member for Orkney and Shetland for their leadership on this piece of work. But I also thank the many fishermen and women and other stakeholders from across the UK who gave evidence to the all-party group's process. Particular tribute to Mike Cohen at the NFFO for having uh pursued me on this policy idea for many years, and also to Leah and Odia and her team who did so much of the basic research, organising, and drafting. And I would also note, this is almost exactly 5 years ago this day, somewhat to my overnight surprise, I found myself in this very hall as the shadow fisheries minister speaking for the opposition. A job I had to say I hugely enjoyed both in opposition and as a minister, not least because I met and got to know so many very special people and enjoyed many debates with many familiar friends in this hall today.
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