Oral Question·Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
“What steps the Government is taking to strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights.”
Tabled: 11 July 2018Answered: 17 July 2018
Asked by
Sir John Whittingdale
Conservative — Maldon
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Answer from Hansard
Matthew Pennycook
As I made clear in answer to a previous question, strong protections in national planning policy mean that development that could be vulnerable to flooding should not be allowed in areas of high flood risk. Where local planning authorities have approved development in spite of initial objections—for example, from the Environment Agency—they will have had to ensure that the development would be safe through, for example, adequate mitigations.