Flooding: Relief Effort

Lord Cormack Excerpts

Monday 25th January 2016 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Williams of Trafford]

My Lords, the Prime Minister also said that we are going to have a complete review of how we mitigate flooding because the floods, both Desmond and Eva—and hopefully not Jonas—have seen unprecedented patterns in terms of both the strength of the rainfall and the destruction done. Therefore, there is going to be a complete review of how we actually manage flooding as well as the flow of water that we talked about in this House last week.

[Lord Cormack (Con)]

My Lords, what exactly does a flooding envoy do? Does he work with the usual channels?

[Baroness Williams of Trafford]

Boom, boom, my Lords. He acts as a co-ordinator of what is being done and if anything in addition needs to be done in supporting those areas in managing the relief operation.