Crown Estate Bill [Lords]

Debate between Darren Jones and Melanie Onn

2nd reading
Tuesday 7th January 2025 Commons Chamber

[Darren Jones]

That is a great question. I have no idea, so I will commit to writing to the right hon. Gentleman with an answer, if he will forgive me for not knowing.

[Melanie Onn (Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes) (Lab)]

Will the Minister give way?

[Darren Jones]

Only if it is a question to which I know the answer.

[Melanie Onn]

I might be able to help a little with the question asked by the right hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr Carmichael). The Crown Estate has engaged in supporting the evidence and change programme that has brought the fishing industry and the renewables sector around the table to enable earlier planning to prevent some of the conflicts we have seen. My speech will highlight some good examples of where those plans and the evidence and change programme have started to be implemented. The industries are working together, hand in hand, to prevent the kind of conflict about which the right hon. Gentleman is rightly concerned.

[Darren Jones]

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for her help, which I hope gives the right hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr Carmichael) some reassurance, as it sounds eminently sensible.