Floods Resilience Taskforce: New body to address flood preparedness and defence delivery

Stuart Stone
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Environment Secretary Steve Reed hosts local government, communities, and emergency services at first meeting to improve UK resilience in face of extreme weather

The government's new Floods Resilience Taskforce met for the first time today, as part of efforts to ramp up the development of flood defences and bolster the UK's resilience in the face of increasingly...

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