Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs – in the House of Commons at 10:30 am on 2 April 2009.
The question is about how many of the Pitt report's recommendations have been implemented, so I hope that the Secretary of State will not be coy and will tell us. Following the question by Mr. Martlew, will he also confirm that the programme of work that the Environment Agency has agreed with the water companies to protect the critical infrastructure from flooding this spring—before the publication of the Bill—will not be thwarted by any outside body?