Insurance: Flood Risk Areas

Lord Phillips of Sudbury Excerpts
Wednesday 22nd May 2013

(11 years, 7 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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On the noble Baroness’s specific question, it is one of a panoply of issues that need to be addressed. I will write to her further on that. She specifically mentioned London. London is a very important component of this. The Environment Agency has a plan to tackle the issue, called the Thames Estuary 2100 Plan. A key strength of the plan is its adaptability, which allows us to deploy different options to manage flood risk as new climate change guidance emerges.

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What assumptions about global warming underlie the negotiations?

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That is a subject for a longer debate.