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Implementation should focus on women with particular needs, such as those who live in deprivation and have much poorer outcomes—Marian Knight will be able to speak to such issues very well—as well as black and brown women, and women from ethnic minorities.
Yes, it could. That comes back to Mr Brown’s point about the proper timescale and process that this Parliament must go through in exercising its responsibilities.
However, I am pleased that we have been able to devise packages for vessels of under and over 12m and for hard-pressed processors, particularly in the shellfish and brown trout sectors, which face financial armageddon.
It had discussions with ministers, and people such as Bill Aitken from the Conservative Party, Robert Brown from the Liberal Democrats and Richard Simpson from the Labour Party were all very influential in taking the agenda forward.