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Water White Paper

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

537 c401 

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Water for life.
Thursday, 8 December 2011
Command papers
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Mary Creagh | 537 c401 (Link to this contribution) To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will make a statement o...

Lord Benyon | 537 c401 (Link to this contribution) Making sure that we have enough water for everyone will be one of the major challenges this country ...

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Lord Benyon | 537 c408 (Link to this contribution) I commend that company. I was with its chairman just the other day discussing this issue. We have to...

Mary Creagh | 537 c401-4 (Link to this contribution) I start by thanking the Secretary of State for her note explaining why the market-sensitive parts of...

Lord Benyon | 537 c407-8 (Link to this contribution) Deephams is vital to the infrastructure that we need. The hon. Gentleman is right to suggest that it...

Lord Benyon | 537 c409 (Link to this contribution) I will of course ensure that they are not forgotten. I am looking forward to going up to the north-w...

Thomas Docherty | 537 c406 (Link to this contribution) I think that there will be concern at the failure to separate the retail arm of competition for non-...

Lord Benyon | 537 c404 (Link to this contribution) I have looked very carefully at that issue, and as my hon. Friend will know we are in the process of...

Lord Benyon | 537 c407 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right: we released only the parts of the White Paper that were market sensitive to...

Stephen Phillips | 537 c406 (Link to this contribution) Lincolnshire, where my constituency sits, is one of the driest counties in the country, somewhat cou...

Lord Benyon | 537 c406 (Link to this contribution) That is a clear priority. We hope to have a water Bill to take those methods forward. We looked clos...

Tony Baldry | 537 c404 (Link to this contribution) Birmingham has a greater length of canals than Venice, and the country as a whole has an extensive c...

Lord Benyon | 537 c407 (Link to this contribution) I have visited that catchment area and know that there are serious issues to be tackled. We work clo...

Andrew Love | 537 c407-8 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has confirmed his commitment to the Thames tideway tunnel investment of £4 billion. Wil...

Baroness Coffey | 537 c408-9 (Link to this contribution) The microclimate in Suffolk Coastal is quite similar to that of north Africa, and farmers are used t...

Andrew George | 537 c405 (Link to this contribution) Like the right hon. Member for Exeter (Mr Bradshaw), I welcome the Government's approach with regard...

Stephen Mosley | 537 c409 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has just mentioned Welsh Water. Will he remember that it also serves customers on the E...

Lord Benyon | 537 c405 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. We hope to legislate in the near future on a number of these...

Nadhim Zahawi | 537 c407 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the White Paper. Will the Minister confirm that the reason it was released to the City fir...

Lord Benyon | 537 c407 (Link to this contribution) I am saddened that the hon. Gentleman is not as welcoming of the White Paper as others have been. We...

Lord Benyon | 537 c404 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his words. Of course, he is right. We want to encourage water c...

Lord Benyon | 537 c406 (Link to this contribution) I have the highest respect for the Environment Agency. The people who work there are true profession...

James Gray | 537 c405 (Link to this contribution) One reason for over-abstraction from rivers such as the source of the Thames and the Malmesbury, the...

Lord Benyon | 537 c405 (Link to this contribution) There are great incentives to be given in the construction of new homes. In terms of the wider debat...

Lord Benyon | 537 c405 (Link to this contribution) That is a matter of great concern to me. The River Kennet flows through my constituency, and when I ...

Caroline Lucas | 537 c405 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the publication of the White Paper, although I am disappointed that in some respects it is...

Lord Benyon | 537 c401-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady for the welcome she has given to large elements of the White Paper. S...

Paul Flynn | 537 c407 (Link to this contribution) If the Government are abiding by their promised timetable, 8 December is part of early summer. Is it...

Lord Benyon | 537 c406 (Link to this contribution) One of the core principles that motivates us in DEFRA is food security. We are deeply indebted to th...

Chris Bryant | 537 c408 (Link to this contribution) With all this talk of dryness, I feel as though the Rhondda is living in a different world—perhaps n...

Roger Williams | 537 c407 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the commitment in the White Paper to tackle water quality on a water catchment area basis....

George Eustice | 537 c408 (Link to this contribution) I, too, welcome the measures outlined in the White Paper to deal with the affordability of water bil...

Lord Benyon | 537 c408-9 (Link to this contribution) I am very happy to discuss the details of that with my hon. Friend and with farmers from her constit...

Barry Sheerman | 537 c406 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will be aware that it took David Walliams's sponsored swim down the Thames to remind ou...

Lord Benyon | 537 c408 (Link to this contribution) It is no comfort to my constituents or the constituents of other hon. Members in the Thames Water ar...

Ben Bradshaw | 537 c404 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the fact that the Government are implementing the part of Anna Walker's review that will b...

Subjects

Drinking water Standards Water Water charges Water supply Social tariffs

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