Businesses need to plug flood defence spending gap, says environment committee chief
Anne McIntosh, chairwoman of the EFRA select committee, warns of huge repair and maintenance investment black hole
Insurance companies, pension funds and water companies will need to make up the shortfall in flood protection spending over the next six years, the chairwoman of parliament's Environment, Food and Rural...
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