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Water Bill

Proceeding contribution from Lord Whitty (Labour) in the House of Lords on Thursday, 6 February 2014. It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bills on Water Bill.

I thank the noble Baroness for that and her determination to write to me setting it out. The importance of this is that these maps are there but will change. They will change as a result of development activities, because of climate change and our experience of floods that are supposed to happen once in every 200 years in the Somerset Levels—to return to that topic—but have happened in two years. It is vital that mapping resources are there and accessible to everybody, as they clearly already are to my noble friend Lord Knight. Not everybody has that level of accessibility. We need it, and we need to be assured that the resources can be updated and improved as information changes.

I thank the noble Baroness and the Minister for their patience this afternoon. We will meet again shortly, dealing with floods, in particular. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
752 c358 
Session
2013-14
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Legislation
Water Bill 2013-14
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