VoteClimate: Flood-risk Areas: Rural Communities - 19th October 2023

Flood-risk Areas: Rural Communities - 19th October 2023

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Flood-risk Areas: Rural Communities.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2023-10-19/debates/D42907CE-E136-4362-B1F8-017231C939B4/Flood-RiskAreasRuralCommunities

Emma Hardy (Labour)

I listened carefully to the Minister’s response, and I noted that she did not mention the National Infrastructure Council’s report, commissioned by the Government a year ago, which stated that an extra 190,000 homes were at risk of flooding—not because of climate change, but because of the Government’s failure to maintain existing flood defence assets. When the Government cannot even get the basics right, how can anyone possibly trust them to have the answers to the ever-increasing flood risk that our country faces?

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