NEW: I understand that the Government has just accidentally voted for a Labour amendment in the Fisheries Bill Committee, on recreational fishing. Clause was announced as a Government clause by the chair and was nodded through.

The clause in question would require the Secretary of State to consult on providing financial assistance for the promotion of recreational fishing, and to include representatives of recreational fishing when conducting a consultation under any other provisions of the Bill.

Understand the mistake was in the drafting of the Committee script and that the party Whips are now negotiating what happens next... will the clause remain to later be taken out at report stage or another vote in Committee?

From a Labour source: "It's not really the clerk's fault, the chair, the minister and the whips should have noticed - Prentis doesn't even know what amendments she's putting down."

A transcript of the section of the meeting in question: the minister formally moves the clause, voted through, and when informed of the mistake says: “right, we don’t want it”. Labour realised the mistake and stayed quiet, meeting adjourned shortly after.

Reaction from the @AnglingTrust - safe to say they’re pleased with the new accidental clause.

Labour's shadow environment secretary @LukePollard pokes a bit of fun: https://twitter.com/LukePollard/status/1305850549275963400?s=20

Committee is back: @LukePollard makes a point of order after the chair has suggested re-doing the vote: "I seek clarity on why the vote is being rerun... the disorderly part of it was that the Conservatives not spotting it was a Labour clause they were moving and voting on."

Pollard: "Therefore the confusion has arisen because they weren't following the Order Paper sufficiently."

Charles Walker in the chair falls on his sword "It would be easy for me to deflect the blame onto colleagues but I should accept a large amount of the blame myself."

Walker: "I do apologise, I should have spotted it myself... the key point was that I didn't invite Labour to move its new clause. For that I apologise to the shadow minister and I apologise to colleagues."

He invites @Steph_Peacock to move clause 2 again - she says "no"

Knows it would lose and considered bad practice for Opposition to put all amendments to a vote. So as MPs agreed to rerun it but Labour didn't move it formally, New Clause 2 is off the statute books!

Brendan O'Hara, moving clause 3, apologises that his won't be as exciting.