Current status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 29 January 2013
To ask the Scottish Government when the updated National Flood Risk Assessment will be published.
The first ever National Flood Risk Assessment (NFRA) for Scotland was published in December 2011 and is only the first step in a new risk-based approach to managing the impacts of floods, where the focus of plans and actions to manage flooding are targeted on where the need and benefits are greatest. The next step is for SEPA to publish new flood risk and flood hazard maps in December 2013. The NFRA will form a regular part of the new Flood Risk Management Planning Cycle, and will be updated by 22 December 2018, as required by the Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009.