Whitehall is not giving local authorities the necessary support to prepare for or mitigate the impacts of flooding, according to a new report by the cross-party environmental audit committee.
The inquiry concluded that the ‘reactive’ approach to funding flood defences exposed the Government’s ‘lack of long-term strategic planning’.
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