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Flood and Water Management Bill

My Lords, I admire the ingenuity of the noble Lord, Lord Addington, in tabling a sort of paving amendment for something which we will not get to until the back end of Part 2, where Clauses 43 and 44 lie. They are important clauses; I have no doubt that we will be able to address them along with the Government’s amendments at that time. These are important issues. Community group charges and social tariffs are of considerable concern to many people. Should the Committee’s deliberations become so protracted that we do not reach those clauses, it is probably as well that we have had an opportunity to recognise them in this brief debate on the noble Lord’s amendment.