Future flood prevention inquiry

Inquiry by the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, 21 January 2016 to 23 February 2017. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• 2nd Report - Future flood prevention (2 November 2016)
• 4th Report - Future flood prevention: Government’s response to the Committee’s Second Report of Session 2016-17 (24 January 2017)
• 5th Special Report - Government's Response to the Committee's Second Report of Session 2016-17: Government Response to the Committee's Fourth Report (23 February 2017)

Evidence sessions

• 13 April 2016: Lord Krebs, Chair of the Adaptation Sub-Committee, and Daniel Johns, Head of Adaptation, Committee on Climate Change, Professor Dame Julia Slingo, Chief Scientist, and Paul Davies, Chief Meteorologist, Met Office; Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive, and John Curtin, Executive Director of Flood and Coastal Risk Management, Environment Agency, Alan Law, Chief Officer, Strategy Reform, and Rob Cooke, Director, Terrestrial Biodiversity, Natural England (at 2.45pm).
• 27 April 2016: Innes Thomson, Chief Executive, Association of Drainage Authorities, Councillor Mark Hawthorne, Chairman of the People and Places Board and Leader of Gloucestershire County Council, Local Government AssociationMinette Batters, Deputy President, National Farmers' Union, Ross Murray, President, Country Land and Business Association, Kevin Peberdy, Director of Wetland Experience and Creation at Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Blueprint for Water Coalition
• 25 May 2016: Philip Barnes, Director for Land and Planning, Barratt Developments Plc, James Harris, Policy and Networks Manager, Royal Town Planning Institute, Steve Wielebski, Technical Adviser, Home Builders Federation
• 15 June 2016: Mark Hoban, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Flood Re, Brendan McCafferty, Chief Executive Officer, Flood ReHuw Evans, Director General, Association of British Insurers, Iain Hamilton, Head of Pricing and Underwriting, UK General Insurance for Personal Lines, Aviva
• 29 June 2016: Dr David Pirie, Executive Director, Scottish Environment Protection Agency, David Porter, Chief Executive, Rivers Agency, Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Jeremy Parr, Head of Operational Risk Management, Natural Resources WalesDr Stephen Bird, Managing Director, South West Water, Dr Adam Comerford, National Hydrology Manager, Canal and River Trust, Jo Harrison, Asset Management Director, United Utilities, Peter Simpson, Chief Executive, Anglian Water
• 20 July 2016: Matt Wrack, General Secretary, Fire Brigades UnionDr Therese Coffey, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Neil Hornby, Deputy Director, Flood Risk Management, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs