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Water Strategy

I certainly appreciate what the hon. Member for Truro and St. Austell has been doing. Both of us have been campaigning on this issue since the water industry was privatised. I did not mean to be at all curmudgeonly about the contribution that the Liberal Democrats make. I would also point out that there is no Conservative Back Bencher here, and Conservative Back Benchers do not attend the cross-party meetings with the Minister, although they are invited to them.