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Baroness Boycott (CB)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 28 January 2026

Debate

Yorkshire: Sustainable Water Management Solutions

Contribution

My Lords, flood defences in Monmouth were built in 2020, survived a storm in 2022 and fell down in 2025. It seems that a lot of the concrete stuff that is built is not actually resistant in the long term. What are the Government doing to look at more nature-based solutions? Japan’s insurance industry funds only nature-based solutions such as bends in rivers, as it feels that they really do provide resistance. What percentage of our flood defences is going in that direction?

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