Political Debate - LONDON


The Political Debate in London

Early Day Motions 1st January 1999 to November 2002

Contacting Your MP

UK fishing industry received £203 million aid - 10th March 2005

Bid to restore fishing area to national control - 5th July 2004

Government cuts funding for environmental issues - 19th April 2004

Minister to probe bass fishery veto - 13th April 2004

Blair “adrift” on environment warns leading green adviser - 13th April 2004

Net Benefits - A sustainable and profitable future for UK fishing  - Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit - March 2004 - pdf 1.14MB

MPs in call for bass fishery closure to protect dolphins and porpoises - 30th January 2004

MPs call for increased protection of dolphins - 30th January 2004

Call for halt to dolphin deaths - 15th January 2004

Oral Evidence to the Sub-Committee on Cetacean By-Catch, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Committee (pdf - 135KB) - 10th November 2003

Oral Evidence to the Sub-Committee on Cetacean By-Catch, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (pdf 118KB) - 3rd November 2003

Summary of consultation responses to the UK Small Cetacean Bycatch Response Strategy.

(Pdf 15KB) Web posted 13th October 2003

Common Fisheries Policy: EUC Report - Lords Hansard text for 10th October 2003 (231010-05)

Progress of Reform of the Common Fisheries Policy - Twenty-Fifth Report of the Select Committee on European Union - House Lords - 13th May 2003

Written answers to questions (dolphins) UK Parliament - 7th May 2003

Dolphin deaths won't stop - 22nd March 2003

Campaigners say dolphin slaughter will not end - 20th March 2003

launches UK Small Cetacean Bycatch Response Strategy - 20th March 2003

Hopes raised of cut in dolphin deaths - 20th march 2003

Tuna scheme should be extended - 20th March 2003

“Pingers” for nets may become compulsory - 20th March 2003

Minister for Fisheries pushes for EU action to protect cetaceans - 23rd January 2003

UK Parliament -  Debate  – DOLPHIN BYCATCH - Westminster Hall,  22nd  January 2003

Dolphins 'in danger of dying out' – 22nd January 2003

Politician urges action to halt dolphin deaths - 16th January 2003

response to an individual’s e-mail question regarding level of cetacean bycatch 7 Jan 2003

Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Committee Report on Reform of the Common Fisheries Policy, together with the Proceedings of the Committee, and the Minutes of Evidence and Appendices -28th November 2002  pdf

Britain urged to renounce "green voluntarism" - 26th November 2002

WHAT ON EARTH? - The Threat to the Science underpinning conservation
Select Committee on Science and Technology - Third Report 2nd May 2002

Appendices to the Minutes of Evidence – Memoranda sumitted by Fishers’Organisations & NGOs




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