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Flood and Water Management Bill

My Lords, I declare an interest for this part of the Bill as a former chief executive of the Environment Agency. I am delighted to see the Bill here now. If we ever get a chance to stop voting, it might actually progress. I am also president of a local wildlife trust and a member of the climate change adaptation committee. I support the principle of these amendments. They are probably legislatively unnecessary, since this sort of co-ordination is increasingly already happening, but I welcome what has just been said about the importance of co-ordination. I hope that noble Lords will bear that in mind when we come to debate Amendments 27, 33, 38 and 39, which seem to weaken co-ordination. I simply place a marker that the statements we have just heard about co-ordination are extremely important.