Parliamentary search - Flood and Water Management

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Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

532 c143-88WH

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Future flood and water management legislation. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee third special report - government response to the Committee's first report of session 2010-11.
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Parliamentary committees
House of Commons

Future flood and water management legislation. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee first report with formal minutes and written evidence. Additional written evidence is contained in volume II, available on the Committee website.
Wednesday, 15 December 2010
Parliamentary committees
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Graham Stuart | 532 c158WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's party created them.

Barry Gardiner | 532 c158WH (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree with the hon. Gentleman. We have talked about introducing minimum standards, and ...

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Barry Gardiner | 532 c157-8WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman points out that at various periods during the previous Labour Administration the ...

Graham Stuart | 532 c158WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is being generous in giving way. I was not trying to suggest that he is not being...

Barry Gardiner | 532 c155-7WH (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to speak in the debate, and congratulate the hon. Member for Thirsk and Malton (Miss ...

Graham Stuart | 532 c157WH (Link to this contribution) After the floods in 2000, the then Prime Minister, Tony Blair, had people from Norfolk and other are...

Barry Gardiner | 532 c153-4WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the biodiversity offsetting provisions in the White Paper that th...

Neil Carmichael | 532 c154-5WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right that it is an important feature, but the question remains who...

Nia Griffith | 532 c151-2WH (Link to this contribution) The idea would merit further examination, but we need to look at the quite considerable sums that th...

Neil Carmichael | 532 c152-3WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Walker, for inviting me to speak in this timely and important debate. It is important ...

Speaker | 532 c172WH (Link to this contribution) Before I call the next speaker, I remind everyone that the winding up speeches start at five minutes...

Barry Gardiner | 532 c158-60WH (Link to this contribution) Indeed, I take on board the party political knockabout that we can have. Local authorities have been...

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 532 c166-7WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his declaration of interest. Is the problem in his view a ma...

John McDonnell | 532 c167-8WH (Link to this contribution) The Pitt review identified two areas: clarity of leadership in a particular response and resources, ...

Laurence Robertson | 532 c168-70WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Thirsk and Malton (Miss McIntosh) on securing the debat...

Anne Marie Morris | 532 c170-2WH (Link to this contribution) I add my voice to the voices of others who have commended the work of my hon. Friend the Member for ...

Speaker | 532 c160WH (Link to this contribution) Order. We have one hour and 10 minutes for speeches, and seven colleagues who wish to speak. That is...

Graham Stuart | 532 c160-3WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to participate in this debate and to follow speeches that are as excellent and thou...

Therese Coffey | 532 c163-6WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Main. I commend the EFRA Committee on its exc...

John McDonnell | 532 c166WH (Link to this contribution) I refer to my entry in the Register of Members' Financial Interests that I am secretary to the Fire ...

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 532 c145-6WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for making that point and for his invitation, which I was able to ac...

Graham Stuart | 532 c144-5WH (Link to this contribution) I support that request and wish to reinforce the recommendation in the Committee's original report. ...

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 532 c144WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that point. I know Workington and Maryport extremely well, a...

Tony Cunningham | 532 c144WH (Link to this contribution) We spend a lot of time talking about flood defences. Does the hon. Lady agree that general maintenan...

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 532 c143-4WH (Link to this contribution) Welcome to the Chair, Mr Walker, it is a privilege to serve under your chairmanship. I also welcome ...

Nia Griffith | 532 c151WH (Link to this contribution) That suggestion would probably exacerbate some of the difficulties. The historical reasons for the c...

Graham Stuart | 532 c150-1WH (Link to this contribution) In posing that conundrum, does the hon. Lady have any sympathy with the idea of solving it by transf...

Graham Stuart | 532 c151WH (Link to this contribution) I am trying to understand the objection, which I do not quite get. We recognise that we have haphaza...

Barry Gardiner | 532 c146WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is making a compelling case on many fronts. Planning and misconnections are a consider...

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 532 c146-7WH (Link to this contribution) I think we need both approaches. The system is failing because of the lack of consultation with wate...

Graham Stuart | 532 c147-8WH (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the Committee looked at bringing in national flood protection standards. As soon as...

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 532 c148WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend pre-empts my next point. Why has there been a delay in the consultation on and implem...

Tony Cunningham | 532 c148WH (Link to this contribution) If the work is not done, large numbers of people and properties will either have huge excessive insu...

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 532 c148-9WH (Link to this contribution) I will take that opportunity to bring forward my comments on floods insurance. There is an urgent ne...

Nia Griffith | 532 c149-50WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Walker, and a great pleasure to follow the hon...

Jamie Reed | 532 c183WH (Link to this contribution) On that point, may I put on the record the fact that all of us acknowledge that there is still—I kno...

Lord Benyon | 532 c182-3WH (Link to this contribution) I think there is, and I will tell my hon. Friend why. I can only speak about this in generalities. M...

Graham Stuart | 532 c182WH (Link to this contribution) At the moment, the benefit-cost ratio gives a weighting to deprivation. That tends to favour urban o...

Lord Benyon | 532 c183-5WH (Link to this contribution) I have developed a habit of agreeing, if any colleague asks me, to go to any part of the country at ...

Graham Stuart | 532 c183WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful. The Minister talked about capacity in areas. Through him, may I congratulate Ron Smit...

Lord Benyon | 532 c183WH (Link to this contribution) I am conscious of the time. I will if it is a very quick intervention, and then I must make some pro...

Graham Stuart | 532 c183WH (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend give way?

Lord Benyon | 532 c183WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right, and that relates to the issue of insurance as well. I have been taking ...

Barry Gardiner | 532 c183WH (Link to this contribution) Just to add to the Minister's caution around the question of deprivation, so much of social housing ...

Lord Benyon | 532 c183WH (Link to this contribution) Of course I acknowledge that; I was coming on to talk about it. Possibly through the unguarded way i...

Neil Parish | 532 c174-6WH (Link to this contribution) It is good to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Main. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Thirsk ...

Priti Patel | 532 c172-4WH (Link to this contribution) I welcome the opportunity to speak in this debate and I pay tribute to the Select Committee and its ...

Speaker | 532 c177WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I hope that the hon. Gentleman does not, because it has nothing to do with what we are discus...

Jamie Reed | 532 c177WH (Link to this contribution) I would love to debate this issue with the hon. Gentleman morning, noon and night.

Lord Benyon | 532 c180-2WH (Link to this contribution) It is good of you to chair our proceedings, Mrs Main, albeit it for only part of our debate. I congr...

Jamie Reed | 532 c177-80WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for your guidance, Mrs Main. I fear that I would have strayed for some considerable le...

Neil Parish | 532 c176WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way?

Jamie Reed | 532 c176WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship for the first time, Mrs Main. I thank the Chairman...

Neil Parish | 532 c177WH (Link to this contribution) I apologise—I meant to say the shadow Minister. The hon. Gentleman makes the point that we are respo...

Jamie Reed | 532 c176-7WH (Link to this contribution) I am not yet a Minister, but I am happy to give way.

Lord Benyon | 532 c186-7WH (Link to this contribution) I apologise, but I really cannot, because I do not have much time left. The statement of principles...

Barry Gardiner | 532 c185-6WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way?

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 532 c187-8WH (Link to this contribution) I welcome you to the Chair, Mrs Main. The report was very much a team effort on the part of the Com...

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Costs

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Land use

Droughts

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Water

Water charges

Water supply

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Dredging

Home insurance

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