Before the Secretary of State moves on to the causes, could he return to the issue raised by my hon. Friend the Member for South-East Cambridgeshire (Mr. Paice) on the response to my question about the drains after the statement last week? The Secretary of State said that"““nobody thought that they were in such a condition. That happens to be the truth.””—[Official Report, 8 October 2007; Vol. 464, c. 44.]"
I am struggling with that definition of the truth. We know that Merial wrote to DEFRA about the drains in 2004. We know that the then Department of Trade and Industry had commissioned tenders to repair the drains a year before. How can the Secretary of State honestly maintain that the truth is that nobody knew?
Foot and Mouth/Bluetongue
Proceeding contribution from
Peter Ainsworth
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 17 October 2007.
It occurred during Opposition day on Foot and Mouth/Bluetongue.
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