With reference to the Business for the week after Easter, may I ask the right hon. Gentleman if he will bear in mind that a statement is to be made by the Government tomorrow on the floods, and that there are many hon. Members on both sides of the House who have views which they would like to express on the matter? Can the Leader of the House give some assurance that at the earliest date possible there will be a Debate on the floods? May I suggest that the Motion standing in my name, and in the names of 160 other hon. Members of the House, would be a suitable Motion on which to have such a Debate?

[That this House cannot but recognise the recent widespread flooding especially in the Fens as a national disaster and urges His Majesty's Government to treat it as such.]