Winter Floods - 6th February 2014

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Winter Floods.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2014-02-06/debates/14020652000002/WinterFloods

11:50 Maria Eagle (Labour)

DEFRA’s own figures show that £2.37 billion was spent between 2007-8 and 2010-11 and that £2.34 billion will be spent between 2011-12 and 2014-15. The Prime Minister and the Government really must stop fiddling the figures. The Secretary of State again used numbers today that are different from those that the Prime Minister used in the House yesterday. Thanks to a freedom of information request, we know that the Environment Secretary cut more than 40% from the domestic climate change budget last year. Was that really the right priority for the biggest cut to any DEFRA programme?

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