Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Alistair Carmichael Excerpts
Wednesday 28th November 2018

(5 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. There is quite a lot of noise in the Chamber, but I want to be able to hear the ordinarily distinctive burr of the right hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr Carmichael).

Alistair Carmichael Portrait Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland) (LD)
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Why did the Government ever think it would be a good idea to include fisheries in the transitional arrangements?

David Mundell Portrait David Mundell
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As the right hon. Gentleman knows, the transitional arrangements will involve a period in which things will remain as they are, in order to provide certainty, but there is a clear mechanism for fishing to leave those transitional arrangements and to be part of the Fisheries Council in December 2020, to plan ahead for 2021.