THAT it be recommended to the Environment Agency and the Welsh Assembly Government that:

(a)         any future Regional Flood Defence Committee having responsibility for Herefordshire should be sufficiently small to ensure that local interests can be properly represented;

(b)         the funding arrangements for work undertaken by the Regional Flood Defence Committee must be consistent across the whole of the Committee area and not affected by national boundaries;

(c)         in the event that Herefordshire remains within a Welsh system of Regional Committees, the creation of three Regional Committees for Wales be recommended; and

(d)    if the English/Welsh border is adopted as the boundary for Flood Defence Committees, Herefordshire should become part of an English Regional Committee structure but within a smaller region than that proposed for the Midlands Regional Flood Defence Committee.