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The methodology for distributing existing quota between the four Administrations is set out in the publicly available UK quota management ru

Clause 20 simply revokes CFP rules on the distribution of fishing opportunities to EU member states, according to relative stability.

The simple reason that we have not included the Scottish Ministers, Welsh Ministers and Northern Ireland Department in this particular claus

My understanding is that the Labour Administration in Wales asked for it to be taken out.

The purpose of clause 20 is predominantly to bring across article 17 from the European Union and make it operable.

I appreciate that my hon. Friend the Member for Waveney is a long-standing campaigner on these issues.

The purpose of clause 19 is to establish a requirement for the Secretary of State to consult the devolved Administrations. As other hon.

This is a similar discussion to the one we had earlier on the use of the negative resolution procedure rather than the affirmative resolutio

Briefly, clause 18 sets out in legislation the power of the Secretary of State to determine the UK’s fishing opportunities.

We received some interesting evidence on this from Dr Carl O’Brien from the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, who i