Flooding Debate
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John Bercow
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(9Â years ago)
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Elizabeth Truss
In fact, I met the ABI a couple of weeks ago and saw the document. It is indeed a good document, which I encourage Members of Parliament across the House to use in helping their constituents.
Mr Speaker
The hon. Gentleman is doubling up as a helpful public information system, on top of all the other useful contributions—
Mr Speaker
Indeed, the hon. Gentleman is always willing to help. We are grateful to him.
Liz McInnes (Heywood and Middleton) (Lab)
Like everybody in the House, I pay tribute to all our emergency services for the magnificent work they have done and continue to do. At present, however, there is no formal expectation that fire and rescue services will actually attend floods in England and Wales. Does the Secretary of State agree that, to ensure an effective, safe and robust response to flooding, we should follow the example of Scotland and Northern Ireland and make it a statutory duty for firefighters in England and Wales to respond to flooding?