Flood Risk Management
Debate between Geoffrey Clifton-Brown and Fabian Hamilton(13 years, 3 months ago)
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Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (The Cotswolds) (Con)
I assume that the hon. Gentleman’s city, like my constituency, suffered bad floods in 2007. If it did, he should surely attach some of the blame for the lack of action on building flood defences to the Labour Government, rather than blaming this Government, who have had only six months to do anything about this.
Hugh Bayley
I have fought hard for 10 years for flood defences to be improved in York and I would accept—