Fire and Rescue Services: Floods
(asked on 7th December 2016) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to make it a statutory duty for fire and rescue services to deal with flooding.
Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
This question was answered on 9th January 2017
We have no plans to make it a statutory duty for fire and rescue services to make provision to protect life and property in the event of flooding.
Fire services already respond to flooding under their general duties in the Fire Services Act and Civil Contingencies Act, and in response to the risks set out in their Integrated Risk Management Plans.