Written Question
Monday 27th October 2025
Asked by:
Lord Teverson (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question
to the Department for Transport:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill on 28 July (HL9720), how many fishing vessels of 24 metres in length and over operating on the high seas they intend to declare following the United Kingdom's ratification of the International Maritime Organization 2012 Cape Town Agreement for the safety of fishing vessels.
Answered by Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill
- Minister of State (Department for Transport)
The United Kingdom currently intends to declare 105 vessels upon accession of the International Maritime Organization 2012 Cape Town Agreement for the safety of fishing vessels.
Written Question
Monday 28th July 2025
Asked by:
Lord Teverson (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question
to the Department for Transport:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Hayman of Ullock on 13 May (HL6754), and following their announcement at the United Nations Ocean Conference in June of the UK's "impending ratification" of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) 2012 Cape Town Agreement for the safety of fishing vessels, whether it is their intention to finalise the ratification process before the 34th session of the IMO Assembly in November.
Answered by Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill
- Minister of State (Department for Transport)
The UK Government is committed to supporting the Cape Town Agreement. It is the first global agreement on fishing safety, to ensure mandatory minimum standards to safeguard fishers working at sea and deter vessels engaged in Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing from operating by making poor working conditions subject to detention and inspection globally.
The Explanatory Memorandum on the Cape Town Agreement will be laid as a Command Paper before Parliament upon their return from recess on 1 September for 21 sitting days. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office will be asked to commence accession procedures once Parliament has resolved it is content to accede.
Written Question
Monday 21st October 2024
Asked by:
Lord Teverson (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question
to the Department for Transport:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the recommendation of a voucher scheme for people on low incomes to buy a cycle, proposed in Sustrans' report The Cycling Opportunity, published on 11 September.
Answered by Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill
- Minister of State (Department for Transport)
The Government has not made a detailed assessment of the costs and benefits of such a scheme but will consider it carefully as it develops its future plans for active travel.
Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 19 Jul 2022
Airports and Airlines: Staff
"My Lords, I am lucky enough to be having a holiday in mid-Switzerland in a couple of weeks. In under a day, I can go from Switzerland back to my home in west Cornwall by train. Does the Minister agree with me that part of the answer to this might …..."Lord Teverson - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 01 Mar 2022
Bus Services: Covid-19 Emergency Funding
"Will the Minister give us an estimate of when the majority of buses, particularly in city centres, will be decarbonised, running on hydrogen or electricity, so we can get away from these toxic fumes from large quantities of buses in city centres?..."Lord Teverson - View Speech
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Speech in Grand Committee - Thu 08 Jul 2021
Road Vehicle Carbon Dioxide Emission Performance Standards (Cars and Vans) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021
"My Lords, I, too, thank the Minister for her explanation, although I must admit—it is no fault of hers—that I found it about as opaque as the Explanatory Memorandum to the SI. I shall ask just three straightforward questions. First, are the EU and UK regulations still identical at the …..."Lord Teverson - View Speech
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Speech in Grand Committee - Tue 29 Jun 2021
Space Industry (Appeals) Regulations 2021
"My Lords, I thank the Minister for her homework and her explanation of these SIs. I always particularly like her style because there is a slight ironic tinge to everything she says, which always adds something to the explanation of rather technical SIs. I will not be as poetic or …..."Lord Teverson - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 22 Jun 2021
Human Rights at Sea
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 22 Jun 2021
Human Rights at Sea
"My Lords, I thank the Minister for that reply, as far as it concerns UK-flagged vessels—but she will understand that the crews of vessels of all nations on the high seas, whether they are fishing vessels, freight vessels or cruise liners, can be uniquely vulnerable to intimidation, abuse and a …..."Lord Teverson - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 19 May 2021
Transport Decarbonisation Strategy
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