Policy paper

National Flood Resilience Review

Review of how we assess flood risk, reduce the likelihood of flooding, and make the country as resilient as possible to flooding.

From:
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Cabinet Office, The Rt Hon Ben Gummer and The Rt Hon Andrea Leadsom
Published
8 September 2016
This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

Documents

National Flood Resilience Review

PDF, 13.9 MB, 145 pages

Details

This review has looked at how we:

  • understand the risks of river and coastal flooding from extreme weather over the next 10 years
  • assess the resilience of key local infrastructure (such as energy, water, transport and communications), and identify ways to protect it better
  • improve how we respond to flood incidents, including through new temporary flood defences

The review was set up in January 2016 to assess how the country can be better protected from future flooding and extreme weather events such as during December 2015.

The review was chaired by the then Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with a team including Cabinet Office, Defra, the Environment Agency, the Met Office, and the government’s Chief Scientist.

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Published 8 September 2016

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