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We know that local people and other road users will be delighted that work to resolve this long-running problem will get underway this month.

Universal Credit is an important reform to our benefits system and is designed to make sure work always pays. We want to reinforce that position.

The Low Pay Commission (LPC), the body that advises the Government on the level of the minimum wage, today welcomed the acceptance of its recommendations for the rates to apply from April 2017. These include a 4.2 per cent increase in the National Living Wage (NLW), the rate for workers aged 25 and over, from £7.20 to £7.50.

All Government departments are currently reviewing the EU laws that apply in their policy areas and how our withdrawal from the EU will affect the operation of those laws. Where laws need to be fixed, that’s what the Government will do.

Mr President, this is a problem not just for tomorrow, but for today. Every year water insecurity costs the global economy $500 billion. That’s 500 billion lost to inadequate water and sanitation, lost to urban flood damage, lost to agriculture wastage through droughts and floods.