Flooding - Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 12:41 pm on 20 January 2021.

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Photo of Lord Rooker Lord Rooker Labour 12:41, 20 January 2021

Does the Minister accept that in a car-crash performance at the Public Accounts Committee last week, his department and the Environment Agency failed to answer the criticism in the National Audit Office report on flood risk management? Of the 4,500 homes flooded last winter, a few are a hundred yards from my home in Ludlow, some still empty and with no extra protection. I ask Ministers to visit flood areas, as the one thing they do not get from television and the media is the smell. It is that smell that would wake them up to do even more.