Insurance: Flood Risk Areas

Lord Campbell-Savours Excerpts
Wednesday 22nd May 2013

(11 years, 6 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord De Mauley Portrait Lord De Mauley
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My Lords, I agree with that. To answer my noble friend’s question and to add to my answer to the noble Lord, Lord Foulkes, I should say that we have regular ministerial meetings with Ministers from the devolved Administrations—in fact, I attended one this week—and this subject regularly comes up.

Lord Campbell-Savours Portrait Lord Campbell-Savours
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My Lords, has the Minister himself been directly involved in these negotiations? If he has, does he know what the obstacle is? What is the problem? What is holding them up?

Lord De Mauley Portrait Lord De Mauley
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I have to admit to the noble Lord that this is not in my policy area, so I have not. I attend the regular ministerial meetings so I know a certain amount about what is going on. In negotiations, it is very important that the intricate details are kept confidential, and I hope that the noble Lord will understand that, but, as I say, I am confident that we are working towards a solution.