Clause 16 - Publication of application for licence
Water Bill [Lords]
10:15 am
Mr Elliot Morley (Minister of State (Environment and Agri-Environment), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Scunthorpe, Labour)
Yes, I do. The Environment Agency will have to make environmental judgments on abstraction and resource management. I realise that national security has to be respected, and we would want to be confident that shared information was being used properly and confidentially. I would have thought that that could be arranged so that legitimate information could be used to enable proper resource management while protecting national security.