Extract from
Westminster Hall debate on South East Strategic Reservoir
Option
(Oxford West and Abingdon)
(LD):...My constituents are challenging some key assumptions. A
cornerstone of the argument for the reservoir is population
growth. WRSE predicts a population increase of 4 million by 2060.
The Office for National Statistics puts the figure at 1.13
million, less than a third of that prediction. Water companies
have pointed to growth in the Oxford to Cambridge corridor as a
factor in their need to create extra resources, but
the Oxford-Cambridge
Arc appears to have been scrapped. Which number is
it? Overestimating population growth has a huge impact on
planning for future water demand. The WRSE estimate overstates
the required water output by 150 million litres a day...
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Extract from
Westminster Hall debate on Local Enterprise Partnerships
(Northampton South)
(Con):...First, LEPs are not perfect. There are issues around
geography; not all LEPs fall very neatly within boundaries. There
are some perceived overlaps, and in the case of the Oxford-Cambridge
Arc we could see some perceived underlaps. It is
worth noting that the Oxford-Cambridge
Arc LEPs tried to adapt and co-operate with other
LEPs to meet the milestones. That has been encouraging, but the
arc is not in the levelling-up White Paper, and now there is an
explosion of question marks around it and its future...
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