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Business question from Ian Liddell-Grainger (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 16 December 2010. It occurred during Business statement on Business of the House.


Business of the House

My right hon. Friend is aware—I have banged on about this enough times—of problems with flooding in my constituency, but we now have a new precedent. The Environment Agency has decided to spend £28 million flooding farmland in order to tick a box for Europe. It is nothing to do with this country; it comes from a European directive. There is now an entire village of people worried that they will be cut off and will have to be removed if the plan fails. This is not the first such case, but things are now getting extremely serious, so may I ask for Government time in which to debate what the Environment Agency is doing?


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
520 c1050 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Coastal erosion Environment Agency Somerset
Link
View this Proceeding contribution on www.publications.parliament.uk