VoteClimate: Finance Bill - 15th July 2010

Finance Bill - 15th July 2010

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Finance Bill.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2010-07-15/debates/10071530000003/FinanceBill

13:45 Gordon Banks (Swansea West) (Lab/Co-op)

I shall bear that in mind. My hon. Friend will know that I had a previous responsibility for adapting Wales to climate change in terms of flood defences, and he will be interested to know that there are literally—

On that specific point about the incidence of such insurance deals, the reality is that, as climate change progresses, the people who are caught by such costs will often be the poorest, who are closer to high flood-risk areas because of bad planning and the like. Does my hon. Friend agree that the impact of the measure will be increasingly regressive?

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