Parliamentary search - Flooding (West Cumbria)

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

518 c285-307WH

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Proceeding contributions

Tony Cunningham | 518 c306WH (Link to this contribution) Will it also include independent lifeboat stations? Such services are not run just by the RNLI.

Lord Benyon | 518 c306-7WH (Link to this contribution) I accept that. We will announce £700,000 as the first part of a £2 million fund for flood rescue equ...

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Tony Cunningham | 518 c300WH (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I can lighten things a little. I was in the sheep and wool centre with the Prime Minister. W...

Jamie Reed | 518 c300-4WH (Link to this contribution) I was not there, but I think I saw that on television. By that time, I was safe, warm and dry, and m...

Tony Cunningham | 518 c298WH (Link to this contribution) I know that I have just spoken, but I want to pay tribute to Bill Barker's wife, Hazel, who is a won...

Jamie Reed | 518 c298-300WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend puts it better than I ever could. Mrs Barker has displayed remarkable integrity and i...

Tony Cunningham | 518 c296-7WH (Link to this contribution) Okay. I will certainly do that, and I thank you for your good grace, Mr Sheridan. I want to say a c...

Jamie Reed | 518 c297-8WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Workington (Tony Cunningham) for securing the debate....

Tony Cunningham | 518 c295-6WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will have an opportunity to reply. I have come across examples of insurance premi...

Speaker | 518 c296WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I genuinely hesitate to interrupt the hon. Gentleman, but the winding-up speeches will start ...

Tony Cunningham | 518 c295WH (Link to this contribution) Yes, absolutely. I pay tribute to the insurance companies and the good loss adjusters, but I want to...

Daniel Kawczynski | 518 c295WH (Link to this contribution) It is a myth.

Jamie Reed | 518 c286WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a powerful point about our local police. Like me, he spends a lot of time speak...

Tony Cunningham | 518 c286WH (Link to this contribution) They feel let down, is the honest answer. I recently received a letter from a PCSO in one of the tow...

Tim Farron | 518 c286-7WH (Link to this contribution) I sympathise very much with the hon. Gentleman's points. He listed the three professional emergency ...

Tony Cunningham | 518 c287WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his comments and congratulate him—or perhaps offer my commiserations—...

Jamie Reed | 518 c287-8WH (Link to this contribution) Before my hon. Friend moves on too much further, we do not yet know the cost of the Cumbria floods. ...

Speaker | 518 c288WH (Link to this contribution) Order. Could I ask Members who make contributions to speak into the microphone, so that the Hansard ...

Tony Cunningham | 518 c285-6WH (Link to this contribution) I thank hon. Members. The families and friends of those who lost their lives and the entire communit...

Tony Cunningham | 518 c285WH (Link to this contribution) It seems rather appropriate to have this debate on a day when floods have hit Cornwall. It is nice t...

Tony Cunningham | 518 c290WH (Link to this contribution) I am very happy to do that. I spoke to the then Secretary of State and the Schools Minister, and mad...

Tim Farron | 518 c290-1WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman rightly pays tribute to the swift work that was done to tackle some of the worst ...

Tony Cunningham | 518 c289-90WH (Link to this contribution) I offer my sympathies to the hon. Gentleman's constituents. As well as Hall Park View, the village o...

Jamie Reed | 518 c290WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is giving a moving, telling and detailed description of the events of last year. He h...

Tony Cunningham | 518 c291WH (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the Minister has taken appropriate note of that. As the hon. Member for Westmorland a...

Lord Beamish | 518 c291WH (Link to this contribution) I join my hon. Friend in congratulating the Army, and I also congratulate the reservists on the role...

Rory Stewart | 518 c289WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will also please remember the communities of Eamont Bridge. The suffering of Cock...

Tony Cunningham | 518 c289WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. In a sense, the media were with us for the floods, but during th...

Jamie Reed | 518 c288WH (Link to this contribution) I am speaking into the microphone this time, Mr Sheridan. My hon. Friend mentions the role of the m...

Tony Cunningham | 518 c288WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Sheridan. I very much concur with my hon. Friend's comments, and farmers are saying th...

Thomas Docherty | 518 c292WH (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend give way?

Rory Stewart | 518 c291WH (Link to this contribution) This incredibly useful contribution is a fantastic way of raising with Parliament and Ministers the ...

Tony Cunningham | 518 c291-2WH (Link to this contribution) There are things we can do. I mentioned the Pitt report, which I hope will be implemented. That will...

Tony Cunningham | 518 c291WH (Link to this contribution) I share that concern. I am delighted to see here the former Secretary of State for Environment, Food...

Tony Cunningham | 518 c292WH (Link to this contribution) I agree, and co-ordination has to take place. If we do not invest now, we are only storing up proble...

Lord Walney | 518 c292WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing the debate. Powerful points have been made about maintenan...

Tony Cunningham | 518 c292WH (Link to this contribution) I agree, and the best example I can give, if you will bear with me, is Carlisle. The flood defences ...

Thomas Docherty | 518 c292WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing the debate. He will probably share my concern that the Gov...

Tony Cunningham | 518 c292WH (Link to this contribution) I will give way to my hon. Friend, and then to the hon. Gentleman.

Jamie Reed | 518 c293WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Members for Penrith and The Border and for Westmorland and Lonsdale are right: more can be ...

Speaker | 518 c293WH (Link to this contribution) Order. May I say that interventions are becoming a bit lengthy? I think we get the point.

Tony Cunningham | 518 c294WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. Sue Cashmore and Brian Watson's group in Cockermouth has looked again a...

Thomas Docherty | 518 c294WH (Link to this contribution) On that point, would my hon. Friend care to comment on the roles of Network Rail and the train opera...

Tim Farron | 518 c292-3WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is being characteristically generous. On the point about co- ordination being so ...

Tony Cunningham | 518 c293WH (Link to this contribution) I agree. Picking up on the hon. Gentleman's point about co-ordination, I actually began having meeti...

Tim Farron | 518 c294WH (Link to this contribution) This will be a brief intervention as the hon. Gentleman has been very generous. On tourism, I wonder...

Tony Cunningham | 518 c294WH (Link to this contribution) The team of companies that got the new rail station up in, I think, six days, which is an incredible...

Jamie Reed | 518 c295WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the insurance industry, of course, also includes practitioners of who...

Tony Cunningham | 518 c294-5WH (Link to this contribution) I very much agree, and I want to touch on tourism a little later. There are ongoing problems; there ...

Lord Benyon | 518 c305-6WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the Opposition spokesman, the hon. Member for Copeland (Mr Reed), for the 32 minutes of his ...

Subjects

Bridges

Disaster relief

Cumbria

Finance

Flood control

Infrastructure

Insurance

Emergency services

Floods

Railways

Redundancy

Utilities

Repairs and maintenance

Rescue services

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