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Emma Hardy
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(9 months, 3 weeks ago)
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Mr Speaker
Hopefully Emma Hardy will get us back on track. I call the shadow Minister.
Emma Hardy (Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle) (Lab)
I recently met with farmer Henry Ward, who showed me the extensive and damaging flooding right across his farmland caused by two breaches in the river after a storm. The Environment Agency is unable to tell him when it will have the resources to repair those breaches. This means that Henry not only lost all the crop that was flooded, but will be unable to plant a new crop in spring. He is not the only farmer to be impacted. When will the Government realise that their failure to be decisive and get ahead of the problem of weak defences is costing farmers their livelihoods and—
Mr Speaker
Order. We only get until 10 o’clock—to take advantage is just not fair. We must have briefer questions from the Front Bench.