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Flooding | Commons debates

My right hon. Friend makes an important point. The Environment Agency is a statutory consultee on all planning applications.

I beg to move an amendment, leave out from “volunteers” to end and insert: “acknowledges that following the Pitt Review in 2008, local an

I am going to make progress and conclude.

My hon. Friend makes an important point. Secondly, after the 2014 floods, another review was led by Oliver Letwin.

I will on that point, but then I am going to make progress.

My hon. Friend makes an important point.

That is correct, and the national Coal Authority sits within BEIS. We have directed it to carry out an urgent assessment of those mines.

I know that the Secretary of State for Wales has had discussions with the Welsh Government.

My right hon. Friend makes an important point. The Environment Agency is a statutory consultee on all planning applications.

The Bill will establish the Office for Environmental Protection, which will have the power to take public bodies to an upper tribunal if