In the Lords

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Randall for his sponsorship of this important Bill and for his continuous and totally reliable champi

My Lords, before becoming a Minister, my noble friend Lord Benyon put together a report for the Government on highly protected marine areas.

This is an important point and there is a tension between our desire to scale up offshore wind, a sector in which the UK has a leadership po

That is a very different issue.

I am just not convinced that we would have a better approach.

I thoroughly approve of the second part of the question; I thank my noble friend.

I am not 100% convinced that I followed the question, but the UK’s role internationally in standing up for the rule of law on our oceans is

My Lords, ocean protection is vital for the domestic and global economy as well as for nature, of course, and that is why we have several Mi

My Lords, the noble Baroness is right about the importance of the ocean but that is why this issue runs like a thread through most departmen

We absolutely do address this issue at the global level.