§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on the current status of United Kingdom water supplies and their adequacy to supply the demands of the next decade.
68WEnvironment. The committee is to be chaired by John Collins, chairman and chief executive of Shell UK Ltd. The other committee members are as listed.
The committee is intended to have three central roles: to provide for a strategic level dialogue between Government and business on environmental issues, both of an immediate and topical interest and of a longer-term nature; in liaison with other appropriate organisations, to help mobilise the business community in demonstrating good environmental practice and management, building on existing initiatives and activities, and to provide a link with, and focus attention on, international business initiatives on the environment.
§ Mr. TrippierWe are informed that water resources are satisfactory and water undertakers expect to maintain normal supplies—except in parts of the south east and east of England. In these areas, groundwater levels are well below normal but water companies expect to maintain supplies with restrictions confined to less-essential uses. The position to 2011 is set out in the National Rivers Authority's report "Demands and Resources of Water Undertakers in England and Wales", copies of which are held in the Library.