Extreme Climate and Weather Events: National Resilience Debate
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Tessa Munt
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Tessa Munt (Wells and Mendip Hills) (LD)
The hon. Lady mentions the Environment Agency, which is causing quite high levels of stress. I should declare an interest: my partner is a farmer, and we had an 80-acre lake for some weeks on the farm. The Environment Agency started thinking about bringing the pumps only after the storms had come. What we need is for the pumps to be there already, so that they can start to pump water away as the storms come in. Otherwise, everybody gets flooded and it is really catastrophic.
Jayne Kirkham
Of course, the EA has struggled with funding for the past 10 years, after it had been cut so badly.