Coastguard closure

Katy Clark MP fights on about the planned closure of the Clyde Coastguard service, scheduled to be handed over to Belfast and Stornoway Coastguard in November 2012. The coastguard station has to move out of premises owned by the Ministry of Defence as the lease has come to an end, but this will happen before the new national arrangements are in place. Katy points out that this may result in dangerous a gap in provision.

Thousands of members of the public have already written to the UK Government Minister expressing their concerns and asking for reassurance that lives will not be put at risk, but to date the Minister has failed to reply.