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Commons Chamber
Local Government Finance - Wed 11 Feb 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Gideon Amos (LD - Taunton and Wellington) Why would it be less costly to provide flood relief and flood protection than adult services in a rural - Speech Link
2: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) me touch on internal drainage boards, which are responsible for managing water levels and reducing flood - Speech Link
3: Manuela Perteghella (LD - Stratford-on-Avon) It has rolled out natural flood management. - Speech Link
4: Jonathan Brash (Lab - Hartlepool) It undermines prevention, which means that we are likely to see more children in care, more long-term - Speech Link
5: Jonathan Brash (Lab - Hartlepool) support to deal with the gap in our in-year funding for children’s social care, the risks are clear: prevention - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Storm Chandra Flooding - Wed 11 Feb 2026
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Sarah Dyke (LD - Glastonbury and Somerton) warnings and 11 flood alerts remain in place across Somerset. - Speech Link
2: Sarah Dyke (LD - Glastonbury and Somerton) raising awareness of flood risk and property flood resilience. - Speech Link
3: Sarah Dyke (LD - Glastonbury and Somerton) track to be fully…flood resilient by the time”the Flood Re programme ends in 2039. - Speech Link
4: Sarah Dyke (LD - Glastonbury and Somerton) prevention, traditional flood defences and nature-based solutions, so that communities like those in - Speech Link
5: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice) We will continue to deliver and repair flood defences, improve drainage systems and develop natural flood - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Independent Water Commission: Final Report - Tue 10 Feb 2026
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lee Pitcher (Lab - Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme) Gentleman knows, I am chair of the APPG for sustainable flood and drought management, and of the all-party - Speech Link
2: Edward Morello (LD - West Dorset) a preventive, low-cost reform that aligns planning decisions with environmental reality, reducing flood - Speech Link
3: Edward Morello (LD - West Dorset) Change must be public-facing, rooted in public benefit and focused on prevention rather than clean-up - Speech Link
4: Josh Newbury (Lab - Cannock Chase) In constituencies like mine, effective co-ordination when it comes to flood prevention, agricultural - Speech Link
5: Amanda Hack (Lab - North West Leicestershire) Leicestershire has again had significant rainfall, and a flood warning is still in place today on the - Speech Link


Grand Committee
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Committee stage - Mon 09 Feb 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: None a mission to tackle obesity and encourage healthier diets as part of our shift from sickness to prevention - Speech Link
2: Lord Fuller (Con - Life peer) fireman goes to a fire once every 12 days or so; this is about the other important work they do, in prevention - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) That would provide legal certainty and embed prevention at the point decisions are made.There is also - Speech Link
4: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD - Life peer) month, when Aberdeen, for example, had 31 days in which it rained for part or all of the day; and when flood - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage - Thu 05 Feb 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None However, surely prevention is better than cure. - Speech Link
2: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) It is extremely valuable for crime prevention and for bringing people who are committing criminal or - Speech Link
3: Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer (LD - Life peer) However, I do not believe it replaces a government-wide prevention strategy. - Speech Link
4: None First, it would require the Secretary of State to establish a rural crime prevention taskforce with a - Speech Link
5: None orders in paragraph 10 of the new Schedule about CCE prevention orders in Northern Ireland (inserted - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 05 Feb 2026
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Alan Campbell (Lab - Tynemouth) thousands of people will receive more timely treatment, and the Minister for Public Health and Prevention - Speech Link
2: Alan Campbell (Lab - Tynemouth) harder.Under this Government, we have increased the Environment Agency budget by £188 million, and our flood - Speech Link
3: Alan Campbell (Lab - Tynemouth) lost to suicide is a profound tragedy, and we are committed to delivering the five-year suicide prevention - Speech Link
4: Sarah Dyke (LD - Glastonbury and Somerton) Can we have a debate in Government time on suicide prevention and mental health and wellbeing in farming - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 05 Feb 2026
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Claire Young (LD - Thornbury and Yate) Pilning, Severn Beach, Yate and Chipping Sodbury, yet the CIRIA C790 code of practice for property flood - Speech Link
2: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice) Bonfield, called “FloodReady”, which was exactly about how we incentivise more people to get property flood - Speech Link
3: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice) We invested £80 million in Somerset between April 2024 and March 2025 on flood and coastal risk management - Speech Link
4: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice) We are putting a record amount of money into flood defences and will continue to do so. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Sustainable Drainage Systems - Thu 05 Feb 2026
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Martin Wrigley (LD - Newton Abbot) It is about how we do flood defences in the south-west. - Speech Link
2: Richard Foord (LD - Honiton and Sidmouth) Margaret Leppard, from Seaton, set up the Seaton Flood Working Group. - Speech Link
3: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice) SuDS should also deliver wider water infrastructure benefits in the form of flood prevention, storm overflow - Speech Link


Grand Committee
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Committee stage - Wed 04 Feb 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) I quote its paragraph 48:“We heard that the Flood Risk Management Strategy requires Lead Local Flood - Speech Link
2: Baroness Dacres of Lewisham (Lab - Life peer) Local planning authorities already carry out flood assessments as part of their duties, just as with - Speech Link
3: Baroness Boycott (XB - Life peer) We are extremely vulnerable to this, and we have very poor flood defences in our schools. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Tue 03 Feb 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Boycott (XB - Life peer) Many of the solutions were very simple, such as flood doors, shading and ventilation windows, which could - Speech Link
2: Baroness Tyler of Enfield (LD - Life peer) people a louder voice and would create a shared evidence base that would allow us to make a shift to prevention - Speech Link