Today marks the first day of Report Stage of the Water Bill in the House of Lords. As the Party’s Co-Chair on Environmental, Food and Rural Affairs I have been leading for the Lib Dem Group on the Bill. I wanted to share with you some of the work our team has been doing.
I should start by saying that there are a great many aspects of this Bill which are thoroughly Liberal Democrat. The Bill’s main focus is on aiming to meet our increasing needs for water, against a backdrop of limited water resources. The Bill also introduces a new system of flood reinsurance, or ‘Flood Re’, that will help people in high flood risk areas get affordable insurance. It will also ensure that we are better able to encourage adaptations and preventative measures to try and limit the kind of horrendous floods so many people experienced over recent months.
While the Bill was in the Commons, our Minister, Dan Rogerson, strengthened even further a welcome new primary duty on Ofwat to ensure water resilience. At a time when water resources are becoming more and more scarce this is a vital step towards the sustainable system Lib Dems want to see.
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