Flooding

Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen Excerpts

Monday 7th December 2015 Lords Chamber

[Lord Dubs (Lab)]

My Lords, I declare an interest, because I have a house four miles south of Cockermouth which, according to neighbours, has been flooded. I was not there—

[Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen (Con)]

We have not heard from the Cross Benches yet and we have got just two minutes.

[Lord Stoddart of Swindon]

I have two short questions for the Minister. First, will he encourage people against non-permeable structures? Secondly, because electricity supply is so important, will he discuss with the electricity companies and National Grid protecting their substations from flooding?