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Water Resources (Abstraction and Impounding) Regulations 2006

I am grateful to the Minister for his response in this short but important debate. When statutory instruments come before the House and the Merits of Statutory Instruments Committee draws things to our attention, we look through them very carefully. We bring back some statutory instruments so that we can have a short debate on them, as we have done today; on other occasions, we do not. I thank all noble Lords who participated in this short debate and I thank the Minister for answering. He was not able to say what response the seven agriculture representatives had made to the consultation. I am not pressing him, but I would be interested to know the answer as it would be very helpful to me. On Question, Motion agreed to.