Question follow-through · 26648
Fire and Rescue Services: Floods
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a statutory duty for fire and rescue services to respond to flooding events.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 27 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 3 Feb 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a statutory duty for fire and rescue services to respond to flooding events.
29 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Feb 2025
Answer published
Fire and Rescue Authorities have duties under the Civil Contingencies Act (2004) to prepare for emergencies, including major flooding. Fire Rescue Authorities also have discretionary powers to respond to incidents under their general powers in the Fire an...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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