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Businesses called on to beef up resilience, as government insists 'lessons learnt' from winter floods

08 September 2016 •

Businesses called on to beef up resilience, as government insists 'lessons learnt' from winter floods

National Flood Resilience Review proposes new stress tests and secures commitments from utilities to better protect key infrastructure

The government has today published its long-awaited National Flood Resilience Review, promising that lessons have been learned from last winter's devastating floods. The review includes a raft of new...

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