Conservative Leader Andrew RT Davies said that flood risk planning systems across the country were not efficient and that this had resulted in an unacceptable amount of communities being flooded.

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Other questions came from Labour peer Lord Touhig on IT systems used to administer for universal credit an from Conservative Baroness Byford on research and development work in food, environment and rural affairs.

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However, this could prove conservative if penetration rates of its recently launched Fusion Series AOI systems, which provides significantly better defect detection and minimizes false alarm rates versus other models, trend stronger than expected.

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But if you are a low-skilled immigration pessimist, especially if you are conservative, then this seems like a far preferable system to points systems or other command and control government handouts that are usually proposed.

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British Conservative MEP Julie Girling and Belgian liberal Dirk Sterckx said that investment in early warning systems may be a waste of money, and that funds would be better spent on flood repairs and defences.

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