Flood and Water Management Bill

Part of Bill Presented — Video recordings bill – in the House of Commons at 5:59 pm on 15 December 2009.

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Photo of Laurence Robertson Laurence Robertson Shadow Minister (Northern Ireland) 5:59, 15 December 2009

My hon. Friend is right to say that the operation in 2007 was the largest in peacetime, but will he speculate on how much worse the situation would have been if the flooding had gone that little bit further and the entire county of Gloucestershire had lost its electricity, which it almost did? That is a measure of how serious the situation was.