Rosie Cooper – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Rosie Cooper on 2016-01-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy to ensure that borough councils in two-tier authority areas provide sandbags to all residents to protect their properties during incidents of flooding.

James Wharton

It is up to individual local authorities to set their policies for sandbag distribution and allocation to residents based on flood risk.