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Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 10 July 2025

Debate

Falkland Islands: Fisheries Exports Tariffs

Contribution

My Lords, regarding credibility and consistency, because the previous Government forgot about the Falklands at the start of the Brexit negotiations, I asked the then Foreign Secretary, the noble Lord, Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton, with all of his great authority and prestige, if he would resolve the issue with regard to the, “£15 million a year to be Spanish-flagged vessels as a result of the lack of access to the EU market”. I asked him that “British fishermen on British vessels fishing in British waters will not to have to do so under a Spanish flag”. His reply to me: “I will certainly take the noble Lord’s point away”.—[Official Report, 5/12/23; col. 1387.] He did, and he kept it away; I never heard back. I commend this Government for seeking additions to the TCA—for example, the SPS negotiations now under way—but what is preventing our Government now commencing discussions for an additional agreement to the TCA with regards to resolving the issue that the party to the right created?

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