Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Oral Answers to Questions

Rebecca Pow Excerpts
Thursday 8th December 2016

(7 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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It is good of the Leader of the House to drop into his own questions session. We are immensely grateful.

Rebecca Pow Portrait Rebecca Pow (Taunton Deane) (Con)
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The floods of 2013 were devastating in Somerset, and my constituency covered half the flooded area. The Somerset Rivers Authority was established to deal with flood resilience, and the then Prime Minister, David Cameron, and the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government gave assurances that the authority could be funded through a precept on our council tax bills. May I have an assurance that work on the framework for such an arrangement is under way?

John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. That is absolutely fascinating material, especially in Taunton Deane, but I question whether it has any particular relationship with the issue of Barnett consequentials. I am sure that that is a matter to which the hon. Lady will devote her grey cells in the hours that follow.