Adjournment debate on Monday, 20 October 2008, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Beith. The answering member was Jane Kennedy.

Flooding (Northumberland)

Adjournment debate on floods in Northumberland.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 481 c133-42
Session: 2007-08
Department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Chamber / Committee: House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions: Jane Kennedy | 481 c140-2 (Link to this contribution) Certainly the Environment Agency will examine incidents of flooding wherever they occur, and will ob...; Jane Kennedy | 481 c140 (Link to this contribution) Very quickly; I am not sure how much time I have left.; Lord Beith | 481 c140 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give reassurance to those in the many other river valleys—the Till, the Coquet, th...; Lord Beith | 481 c140 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way?; Jane Kennedy | 481 c138-40 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for making that point. None the less, when there is such an even...; Peter Atkinson | 481 c138 (Link to this contribution) It is fair to say that the work done by the Environment Agency saved many houses in Ponteland from b...; Lord Beith | 481 c133-4 (Link to this contribution) I am glad to have the opportunity to mention the very serious floods that Northumberland experienced...; Denis Murphy | 481 c134 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on securing this important debate. He rightly points out tha...; Lord Beith | 481 c134-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point, to which I shall return in a moment. Drain and culvert ...; Jane Kennedy | 481 c136-7 (Link to this contribution) In the light of the recent flooding events in England at the beginning of September, I am most grate...; Jane Kennedy | 481 c137-8 (Link to this contribution) I acknowledge that flood warnings save lives. I understand that more than 70,000 more people have re...; Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 481 c137 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the right hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Sir Alan Beith) on securing the debate....
Subjects: Flood control Land drainage Environment Agency Floods Forecasts Warnings Northumberland Morpeth Rothbury
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Flooding (Northumberland)

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