ABI conference: Financial support promised for all 'worthwhile' flood defence schemes
Environment Minister Richard Benyon has promised that “every worthwhile” flood defence project will obtain some degree of financial support under the government’s new partnership funding scheme, and confirmed he will look into whether the government’s claim that 145 000 extra households will be flood-protected as a result of investment also equates to them being insurable.
Speaking at the ABI's biennial conference in London today, he confirmed that final reports from the three working groups set up following the September 2010 flood summit will publish their final
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