Madam,

The Labour party’s parliamentary representative at recent general election hustings in Dwyfor Meirionnydd last week claimed that I had never raised Fairbourne’s flooding question in Westminster (Plight of Fairbourne has not been raised once).

If Ian MacIntyre were to do his homework before putting pen to paper, he would find this to be untrue. I would refer him to the website They Work For You, where he will find all my parliamentary contributions, including a debate on coastal flooding risk.

It is disappointing that Dr MacIntyre seeks to confuse readers further as regards who is responsible for sea defences for coastal communities in Wales, namely Welsh Labour government in Cardiff.

The chairman of the National Assembly’s Public Account’s Committee opens the committee’s report, ‘Coastal Flood and Erosion Risk Management in Wales’, with the words: ‘The recurrent theme throughout the evidence given to this inquiry was a distinct lack of leadership in a number of key areas from the Welsh Government.’

I am sure the people of Fairbourne and coastal communities across Wales would expect greater action and less uncalled-for political opportunism in this serious matter.

Yours etc,

Liz Saville Roberts, MP for Dwyfor Meirionnydd.

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