Environmental Protection and Green Growth

Doubtless the Department for Transport will deal with that. We have a new Secretary of State, and I look forward to seeing what she does. However, the fact is that joined-up government is important. The story that I was telling hon. Members about is still relevant, because the Minister was talking about the national environment White Paper—which has been endorsed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, the wildlife trusts and so on—in parallel with the national planning policy framework. That is absolutely excellent and is a true demonstration of effective joined-up government helping to deliver polices that make a difference across rural areas. I welcome that. In the past, we saw a Labour Government who were ““siloed””; in the future, we see a coalition Government thinking in terms of Departments working together to produce policies that make a difference. In an intervention, I talked briefly about flooding, but I want to emphasise the importance of localism with reference—