Business of the House Debate

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Business of the House

Thomas Docherty Excerpts
Thursday 7th July 2011

(13 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Thomas Docherty Portrait Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline and West Fife) (Lab)
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May I press the Leader of the House to update us on when the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs proposes to publish its water White Paper?

Lord Young of Cookham Portrait Sir George Young
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Ministers have made a commitment to publish a water White Paper, and it will be published by December 2011. It will cover England only, but it will be developed in close conjunction with the Welsh Assembly Government.