"Peter Michael Ainsworth" is a former Conservative Party (UK)/Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. He was the Member of Parliament for East Surrey (UK Parliament constituency)/East Surrey from 1992 to 2010.

Following his retirement from politics, Ainsworth is now the chairman of the Big Lottery Fund and the wild flora charity Plantlife.

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The government's efforts to tackle climate change remain piecemeal, timid and half-hearted.

It's a crisis, there's no question about that. What [water companies] don't know is whether we're seeing a long-term trend influenced by climate change, or it's just a one in a hundred [year event].