How resilient is the UK to Natural Hazards? Lords ask
on 20 January, the Select Committee on Risk Assessment and Risk Planning will hear from two panels of experts on the United Kingdom’s critical infrastructure in relation to natural hazards; the loss or compromise of which would lead to detrimental impacts on the availability, delivery or integrity of essential services.
Meeting details
At 10:30am: Oral evidence
Inquiry
Risk Assessment and Risk Planning
Interim Executive Director of Flood and Coastal Risk Management at Environment Agency
General Insurance Policy Manager, and flood policy lead at Association of British Insurers
Past President at Institution of Civil Engineers
Chief Executive at Flood Re
At 11:30am: Oral evidence
Inquiry
Risk Assessment and Risk Planning
Chair at Natural Hazards Partnership
At 12:15pm: Private discussion
Inquiry
Risk Assessment and Risk Planning
Possible questions:
- How resilient is the UK’s critical national infrastructure to the risks of flooding?
- Is the UK adequately prepared to mitigate and respond to the risks related to climate change and flooding?
- Is the current legislation and framework for reservoir safety, and other high-risk flooding events, effective and suitably robust?
- What are the challenges of providing insurance against flood risk in the UK?
- What is the role of the Natural Hazards Partnership in providing advice to the Government on natural hazards?
- Are there any natural hazards which the UK is not well prepared for?
- Has the Hazard Impact Framework been successful in providing a common and consistent approach to modelling and forecasting natural hazard impacts?