Coastguard Volunteers: Remuneration and HMRC Guidance Debate
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Rachel Gilmour
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Coastguard Volunteers: Remuneration and HMRC Guidance
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Rachel Gilmour (Tiverton and Minehead) (LD)
We are a proud seafaring nation—as John Evelyn put it, the “sea is England’s element”—and the coastguard stands as the nation’s eyes and ears along our shore. The west Somerset coast runs along the north of my constituency and, in the Bristol channel, we have the second highest tidal range in the world.
I ask the Minister, on behalf of my constituents who now face greater vulnerability as a direct result, on what basis the decision was made. It looks like negligence, but I fear that the blame lies squarely with the MCA. These CROs show extraordinary courage in the line of duty, and, as we all know,
“With courage, nothing is impossible”.