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Flooding

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

463 c563-79 

Session

2006-07

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Hilary Benn | 463 c576 (Link to this contribution) Without waiting for the review, I undertake to go away and ask precisely the question the hon. Gentl...

Hilary Benn | 463 c575-6 (Link to this contribution) The whole House would agree with the points that my hon. Friend makes, particularly the last one: it...

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Paul Burstow | 463 c576 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State referred to the ““precautionary boil”” notices that have been issued in my co...

Martin Horwood | 463 c573-4 (Link to this contribution) May I also congratulate the emergency services and everyone from the Royal National Lifeboat Institu...

Hilary Benn | 463 c574 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his words, and for his thanks. I will ask the Environment Ag...

Clive Betts | 463 c574 (Link to this contribution) In Sheffield we had our floods three weeks ago, and one of the sites that I visited at the invitatio...

Hilary Benn | 463 c574 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a really important point. One thing that is very clear as a result of these rec...

Hilary Benn | 463 c575 (Link to this contribution) Clearly, those managing the watercourses, the river and the defences in place will do their best to ...

James Gray | 463 c578-9 (Link to this contribution) Two detailed points arise from the experience in Wootton Bassett in my constituency, where homes wer...

Lord Benyon | 463 c578 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State’s independent review assess the impact of infill development on our comm...

Anne Main | 463 c579 (Link to this contribution) Further to the answer that the Secretary of State has just given my hon. Friend the Member for Surre...

Lord Gove | 463 c579 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will be aware that the Environment Agency offices for the whole of the Thames...

Hilary Benn | 463 c579 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman is advancing the argument that the events that he mentions ...

Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 463 c577 (Link to this contribution) My constituency, too, has been hit hard by the floods. Will the Secretary of State ask the independe...

Hilary Benn | 463 c577 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises an important point, but engineering and bridge works, of whatever nature, ...

Lord Harper | 463 c578 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State mentioned the Walham national grid switching station, and I support what the ...

Hilary Benn | 463 c578 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right, and that is why the utility companies are part of the resilience forum ...

Lord Boswell of Aynho | 463 c577 (Link to this contribution) Ahead of the main review, will the Secretary of State undertake to sit down with the farming communi...

Hilary Benn | 463 c577 (Link to this contribution) I would be happy to meet representatives of the farming community to discuss those issues, because I...

John Hemming | 463 c578 (Link to this contribution) In the second world war people were evacuated from Birmingham to south Worcester and Gloucestershire...

Hilary Benn | 463 c573 (Link to this contribution) I will reflect on the point that the right hon. Gentleman raises. What I am most interested in, and ...

Hilary Benn | 463 c572 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very important point about the natural human response when other human beings...

Peter Luff | 463 c572 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his visit yesterday to my constituents in Evesham, a town that ha...

Anne Snelgrove | 463 c572 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend take into account the experience of the residents of Moresby close in Swin...

Michael Jack | 463 c573 (Link to this contribution) On 16 September 2004, as the Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the h...

Hilary Benn | 463 c571 (Link to this contribution) I am glad to hear that from my right hon. Friend’s perspective the emergency response has been so ef...

Speaker | 463 c569-70 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am mindful that many Members wish to contribute, but I am also aware that there are two fur...

Hilary Benn | 463 c566-7 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman both for his appreciation of the efforts made in response to thi...

Laurence Robertson | 463 c570 (Link to this contribution) Although the Prime Minister has just left the Chamber, I wish to thank him for visiting the affected...

Hilary Benn | 463 c570-1 (Link to this contribution) I certainly join in the hon. Gentleman’s thanks to all his constituents for their efforts and his ex...

Hilary Benn | 463 c570 (Link to this contribution) I am very happy to be able to say to my hon. Friend that that is one of the issues that the review w...

Hilary Benn | 463 c563-4 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Speaker, I would like to make a statement about the serious flooding that occur...

Hilary Benn | 463 c575 (Link to this contribution) I understand. I am sorry to hear about the personal circumstances that the hon. Gentleman, like many...

Jim Dobbin | 463 c575 (Link to this contribution) My constituency is not a floodplain, but it has recently experienced two very serious flash-flooding...

Bill Wiggin | 463 c575 (Link to this contribution) In Herefordshire, particularly, and in Worcestershire, these summer floods are the worst in living m...

Lord Redwood | 463 c576 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State look at why several recent developments of homes in my constituency have...

Hilary Benn | 463 c576-7 (Link to this contribution) I do not have the information in relation to the forces, but the hon. Gentleman will have seen, as I...

Hilary Benn | 463 c576 (Link to this contribution) As the right hon. Gentleman will have heard in answer to an earlier question, we have now given the ...

Martin Salter | 463 c573 (Link to this contribution) My constituency is about to be flooded for the second time in four days. On Friday there were seriou...

Hilary Benn | 463 c573 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend will have heard, we certainly will be spending more money on flood defence. Let me...

Lord Maples | 463 c574 (Link to this contribution) In the cost-benefit analysis of flood defence work, one of the crucial factors is, quite rightly, th...

Hilary Benn | 463 c574 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to tell the hon. Gentleman that I should be very content to ask the review to look at tha...

Andrew Mackinlay | 463 c574-5 (Link to this contribution) May I look ahead some hours and days, and ask what is the prognosis for managing the build-up of wat...

Hilary Benn | 463 c578 (Link to this contribution) Yes, it will.

Hilary Benn | 463 c577 (Link to this contribution) Although the review is going to look into many things—some of which we have added in the course of t...

Hilary Benn | 463 c578 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, because he draws attention to the willingness of authorities th...

Lord Spicer | 463 c571 (Link to this contribution) What is the point of having flood defences that are not used when they are most needed? That was cer...

Hilary Benn | 463 c571 (Link to this contribution) As I have already said to the hon. Gentleman, the Environment Agency very much regrets that in those...

David Kidney | 463 c571 (Link to this contribution) When natural disasters of the severity that we have witnessed over the past few weeks occur in other...

Hilary Benn | 463 c572 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his kind words and for the time that he spent yesterday morn...

Hilary Benn | 463 c573 (Link to this contribution) I cannot promise that the independent review will look at each individual case of flooding risk in t...

Andrew Smith | 463 c571 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for his statement. The situation in Oxfordshire is very serious, and in...

Chris Huhne | 463 c568-9 (Link to this contribution) We also wish to express our sympathy to all of those affected by the floods. They are severe and the...

Peter Ainsworth | 463 c564-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his statement and join him in extending our sincere sympathy to t...

Philip Dunne | 463 c577 (Link to this contribution) Some unfortunate households in the Ludlow constituency have been flooded twice, and a small number t...

Speaker | 463 c579 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman has already asked one question.

Hilary Benn | 463 c579 (Link to this contribution) I know from my discussions with Sir John Harman and Barbara Young of the Environment Agency how seri...

Hilary Benn | 463 c569 (Link to this contribution) On the last point, the Government certainly realise the scale of the threat from climate change. One...

David Drew | 463 c570 (Link to this contribution) May I first thank my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for visiting Gloucestershire? I also p...

Hilary Benn | 463 c579 (Link to this contribution) I am not aware of the precise details of the case that the hon. Gentleman has raised, but perhaps he...

Lord Robathan | 463 c576 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the whole House would like to pay tribute and give thanks to the armed forces, which ...

Subjects

Contamination Flood control Energy supply Environment Agency Floods Pollution Property Power failures Water Water supply Warwickshire Oxfordshire Worcestershire Lincolnshire Bellwin scheme Water treatment Berkshire Herefordshire

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