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Written Question
Water Power
Friday 16th December 2016

Asked by: Robert Flello (Labour - Stoke-on-Trent South)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on the use of water mills to generate electricity.

Answered by Baroness Coffey

No specific discussions have occurred at Ministerial level on the use of water mills to generate electricity. However officials from the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and the Environment Agency cooperate closely to ensure that small-scale hydropower is exploited in a sustainable way so as to minimise environmental and other impacts.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 24 Nov 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"5. What steps the Church of England is taking to support the Red Wednesday campaign against religious persecution. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 24 Nov 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"May I join the right hon. Lady in thanking all those who lit church and other buildings, including, as she said, our own Parliament? While I live in hope that religious persecution will diminish and one day end, will she join me in encouraging those responsible for all buildings to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 24 Nov 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"I learned recently that water companies are not a statutory consultee, despite companies such as Severn Trent Water wanting to be and having a great deal of knowledge not only about flooding areas, but also about, for example, whether storm drains can cope with additional water created by new building. …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 29 Jun 2016
Dog Fighting

"When I came to the debate this morning I had not intended to make a speech, Sir Roger—only to make some interventions—but I feel so passionately about this issue that I had to try and catch your eye.

I congratulate the hon. Member for East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow (Dr …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 29 Jun 2016
Dog Fighting

"I thank the hon. Member for East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow (Dr Cameron) for securing this debate. Does the hon. Member for Taunton Deane (Rebecca Pow) agree that all these things—third-party puppy sales, puppy farming and illegal imports—are interlinked, and that something properly has to be done by Government? We …..."
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Written Question
Floods: Ayrshire
Monday 25th January 2016

Asked by: Robert Flello (Labour - Stoke-on-Trent South)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information her Department holds on who took the decision to request the use of a helicopter to winch passengers off the bus in Dailley, Ayrshire, during the floods of December 2015.

Answered by Rory Stewart

These decisions would have been taken by the Scottish Government, as flooding is a devolved matter.

Written Question
Floods: Ayrshire
Monday 25th January 2016

Asked by: Robert Flello (Labour - Stoke-on-Trent South)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information her Department holds on who took the decision not to use a professional heavy vehicle recovery operator to recover the bus which was trapped in floodwater in Dailley, Ayrshire, in December 2015.

Answered by Rory Stewart

These decisions would have been taken by the Scottish Government, as flooding is a devolved matter.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 05 Jan 2016
Flooding

"I draw the House’s attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests.

I pay tribute to all those who gave up their time, put their lives at risk and worked hard to save people, but I was frustrated at the sight of people being hauled into small …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 07 Dec 2015
Flooding

"Like other hon. Members, my prayers and thoughts are with all those who have been impacted by these appalling scenes. The word “unprecedented” has been used time and again today, and we seem to be coming back to the House again and again to discuss these issues. Is it not …..."
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