Flooding

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education – in the House of Commons at 3:44 pm on 6 January 2014.

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Photo of Owen Paterson Owen Paterson The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 3:44, 6 January 2014

My hon. Friend raises a very important point. Very few water shortages have been reported, but we have had incidents of sewage flooding, which she has touched on. Apart from all the other problems of flooding, that is horrendous. We will certainly look at that issue and the Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, my hon. Friend the Member for North Cornwall, will talk to the water companies about it.