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HANSARD Storm BertI share my hon. Friend’s praise for volunteers and the emergency services, and particularly for his brother, for the work that they are carrying out. I am sure that he will…25 Nov 2024HANSARD Storm BertThe hon. Gentleman makes an important point. We need to look at dredging and other means of mitigating the risk of flooding, and he is quite right that that needs to be done…25 Nov 2024HANSARD Storm BertOf course, the Government will stand ready to support and help the devolved authorities whenever they face circumstances like these.25 Nov 2024HANSARD Storm BertMy hon. Friend makes a very important point. We need to ensure that the agencies with responsibility for the same rivers or catchment areas and that operate cross-border work as…25 Nov 2024HANSARD Storm BertI am grateful for the point that the hon. Lady makes. I would be happy to raise it with the chief executive of the Environment Agency to ensure that when there is an urgent need…25 Nov 2024HANSARD Storm BertI know the hon. Lady’s constituents will be very grateful for her championing of their cause, particularly given the flooding that we have seen over the weekend. The funding…25 Nov 2024HANSARD Storm BertAs I have indicated, the Minister for water, my hon. Friend the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice (Emma Hardy), has already chaired a roundtable with…25 Nov 2024HANSARD Storm BertMy hon. Friend is right to point to the impact of climate change through the much more frequent severe weather incidents that we are seeing, whether droughts in the summer or…25 Nov 2024HANSARD Storm BertIt was a great pleasure to visit my hon. Friend’s constituency and meet firefighters and other emergency responders so that, together with her, I could thank them personally for…25 Nov 2024HANSARD Storm BertI thank the hon. Gentleman for his comments. I know his constituency well and I know what a champion he is for communities there. I am sure that he will welcome the fact that we…25 Nov 2024HANSARD Storm BertThere is a programme to improve the maintenance of coal tips, which is underway through the Welsh Government. As I said, this is the first Government to allocate funding to tackle…25 Nov 2024HANSARD Storm BertI thank my hon. Friend very much for his question. I am sure that his constituents will be pleased to hear of the increase in funding over the next two years to support areas that…25 Nov 2024HANSARD Storm BertAgain, I share the hon. Member’s concern about the situation. This is the first Government ever to have offered funding to support the problems of coal tips that she described. As…25 Nov 2024HANSARD Storm BertI echo the condolences for the loss of life and state my gratitude to those volunteers who have been engaged in supporting communities at this very difficult time. We will of…25 Nov 2024HANSARD Storm BertI recognise the absolute devastation that my hon. Friend described, which homeowners and business owners will have felt in seeing their homes devastated by flooding. The Prime…25 Nov 2024HANSARD Storm BertI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his comments and questions. I share and echo his gratitude to Members across the House for the work they have carried out to support their…25 Nov 2024HANSARD Storm BertI thank the Chair of the Environmental Audit Committee for his questions and of course sympathise with residents in his constituency who have been affected by the recent flooding,…25 Nov 2024HANSARD Storm BertI thank the right hon. Lady for her comments, and I echo her good wishes to people who have been affected by the situation. She refers to funding. I politely remind her that she…25 Nov 2024HANSARD Storm BertI empathise with the suffering that my hon. Friend’s constituents have experienced because of the recent flooding. We are reviewing the formula; we realise that it is not working…25 Nov 2024HANSARD Storm BertMay I extend my sympathies to the hon. Lady’s constituents following the distressing experiences that they have undergone during this and, I am sure, previous flooding episodes?…25 Nov 2024