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Lord Soames of Fletching

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Counter-terrorism

Flooding

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Saudi Arabia
Tuesday 5th January 2016

(8 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Elizabeth Truss Portrait Elizabeth Truss
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The hon. Gentleman will be well aware that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change helped to secure an historic deal in Paris in December precisely to address that issue.

Lord Soames of Fletching Portrait Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex) (Con)
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Has my right hon. Friend considered asking the Army, and particularly the Royal Engineers, to intervene, given that their skills—the sappers’ skills—with bridging rivers is legendary, and they could easily and quickly replace the lost bridges?

Elizabeth Truss Portrait Elizabeth Truss
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The Royal Engineers are involved, and they have been involved in both Cumbria and Yorkshire, looking at finding possible solutions for those bridges.

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