Flooding
Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions
3:31 pm
Barry Gardiner (Brent North, Labour)
Does the Secretary of State agree with the Environment Agency’s assessment that it should spend an additional £20 million on flood defences each year? Instead of disputing whether there is a 6% or 27% cut, does she not realise that the failure to invest that money costs Great Britain plc far more in the costs of clearing up after floods?