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.

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.

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

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

It is a really important point. Take South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, for example, where we have a large protected area.

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

That is a very different issue.