Member

The Department for Transport relies on the retained EU law Act for quite a range of regulatory adjustments, but it will no longer be able to do so. It will in relation to slots and aviation, because the civil aviation Bill is going through your Lordships’ House and will then go to the other place, so that meets that. But what about the regulation of the marine economy and shipping? There is no provision. None of that can be done. It is dead. It stops unless it is done by Act of Parliament, but every time that we ask Ministers about this they just look baffled, as if we were speaking a foreign language. It is a serious problem that the Government are not fronting up to. As was seen in the previous debate, this does not simply affect the Department for Transport but has consequences across Whitehall. What is the answer? What are the Government going to do?