Flood Protection Schemes - 30th October 2014

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Flood Protection Schemes.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2014-10-30/debates/14103037000030/FloodProtectionSchemes

10:00 Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield) (Lab/Co-op)

May we ask this quite new Secretary of State to start doing some joined-up thinking? Is it not about time she joined up the fact that the climate change and the flooding, which we are getting globally but which is making life very hard for people in the floodplains of this country, is linked to global warming? When will she be a big beast, as I hoped she was going to be, or even a little beast, and bang the table in the Cabinet to get us back on track on fighting global warming?

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Elizabeth Truss

I completely agree that the erratic weather patterns are linked to climate change, which is why my Department is spending a huge amount on flood defences—we are also getting value for money. We are the first Government to put in place a six-year forward-looking programme on capital expenditure for flood defences, meaning that an additional 300,000 homes will be protected.

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