Ms Abena Oppong-Asare

Ms Abena Oppong-Asare

Labour — Erith and Thamesmead

Speaking in the House of Commons on 24 October 2024

Debate

Flood Risk: Resilience Framework

Contribution

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is the lead Department for flooding in England and it stands up its emergency operations centre when a flood forecast or flooding incident justifies that. This includes when flooding may exceed the capacity of local response networks to manage. The EOC works in tandem with Government. We have also set up the flood taskforce, which is looking at how we can deal with flooding in the future to make sure we can address issues like those in the hon. Gentleman’s constituency.

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