Oral Question·Department for International Development
“What recent assessment her Department has made of the effect of water projects in tackling climate change.”
Tabled: 27 February 2020Answered: 4 March 2020
Asked by
Fleur Anderson
Labour — Putney
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for International Development
Answer from Hansard
The Prime Minister
We are listening to farmers, and the Environment Secretary and Treasury Ministers met with the NFU on Monday. We have taken a fair and balanced approach: the vast, vast majority of farms will not be affected. What I will also say is that having grown up in a rural community, I know that rural communities also need an NHS that is back on its feet, schools that their children can go to and homes that their families can afford to live in, but we will continue to talk to the NFU and others.