Clause 9 - Rights to abstract for drainage purposes, etc
Water Bill [Lords]
4:15 pm
Mr Elliot Morley (Minister of State (Environment and Agri-Environment), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Scunthorpe, Labour)
I am happy to confirm that. Moving water about within an IDB area will not be subject to licensing control. Abstraction will be subject to that control, as it is now, as will the transfer of water from one area to another. We have confidence in the management abilities of the IDBs, and we are trying to minimise bureaucracy.