My hon. Friend is bringing back a great many memories of those terrible floods. Does he agree that communication is very important? One of the points made in the Select Committee report was that perhaps we should stop using the “one in 100 years” terminology. We should adopt a way of warning people about how serious floods that does not involve years, because the current terminology is misleading.
Future Flood Prevention
Proceeding contribution from
Rebecca Pow
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 27 February 2017.
It occurred during Estimates day on Future Flood Prevention.
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