Covid-19: Housing

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering Excerpts
Monday 18th May 2020

(4 years, 5 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness McIntosh of Pickering Portrait Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con)
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My Lords, I welcome my noble friend to his position and thank him for taking questions. He will realise that many of those who suffered in the winter floods are still being rehoused. Does he have any idea how many are in that position? Will he take this opportunity to pause before any new houses and major developments are completed to make sure that our future housing stock is resilient, especially to floods? Will he give an undertaking that the Government will stop allowing developments in inappropriate places such as functional flood plains and ensure that there are adequate drainage systems to prevent overflows from combined sewers?

Lord Greenhalgh Portrait Lord Greenhalgh
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The noble Baroness raises an important point: we need to ensure that future homes are resilient to floods. I will write to her on her specific points.