{"id":220949,"date":"2025-10-23T19:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T19:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/220949\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T19:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T19:08:09","slug":"uk-fishing-fund-offer-to-scotland-is-madness-minister-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/220949\/","title":{"rendered":"UK fishing fund offer to Scotland is &#8216;madness&#8217;, minister told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The issue was raised in an urgent question in the House of Commons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alistair Carmichael, Liberal Democrat MP for Orkney and Shetland, pointed out that Shetland alone accounted for about 9% of the UK catch, but that Scotland as a whole would receive less than 8% of the fund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He told Eagle: &#8220;If the minister is sincere when she says that the aim of the government is to maximise local investment then to use the Barnett Formula to distribute this is ocean-going madness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">SNP MP Seamus Logan said the fund had provoked &#8220;anger, dismay and sense of betrayal&#8221; in coastal communities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And Scottish Labour MP Torcuil Crichton, who represents the Western Isles, questioned the &#8220;fairness&#8221; of the fund and called on the Department for Food and Rural Affairs to review it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The issue was raised in an urgent question in the House of Commons. Alistair Carmichael, Liberal Democrat MP&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-220949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}