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Flood Insurance Problems (PE1441)
PE1441, by David Crichton, is on flood insurance problems. The petition calls on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to represent Scottish interests in the discussions between the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the UK insurance industry. I refer members to paper RACCE/S4/13/31/4 on the petition and invite them to comment.
I agree with the recommendation in paper 4 to close the petition on the ground that we are satisfied that the Scottish Government has ensured that Scotland’s interests have been represented. In doing so, we could monitor the progress of the new scheme, flood re, as part of our overall consideration of climate change matters.
I agree. In addition, we could ask the Minister for Environment and Climate Change to keep us updated on any developments.
We need to monitor carefully the UK Government’s five-year flood re scheme. In our discussions on the climate change adaptation programme, we are talking about long-term planning and how that is to be afforded, so I agree that it is important that we get the minister to keep us up to date on the topic.
Our next meeting takes place next week. We will have an evidence session on climate change adaptation and behaviour with the minister. We will also consider two negative Scottish statutory instruments and our draft budget report to the Finance Committee. We look forward to that. I thank members for their prolonged attention.