Speeches by Riddell-Carpenter.

“Understood. Thank you. To unpick the issue of Thorpeness and Jean a bit more, one of the biggest lessons—certainly that I have taken away—from this experience is that we have to understand that these people are going through trauma. If that is our starting point, then all our stakeholders and all our engagement needs t…”

“We are going to come on to that, but I want to push you on the data gathering. One of the concerns that I have in my interactions with the EA, and I appreciate you are more of a strategic oversight, is that there is often a lack of urgency when I am directly engaging with the local EA around some of the issues that we …”

“Going back to what you were talking about a moment ago, sharing the information and making sure it is better communicated, we have been told that the conveyancing profession lacks understanding of coastal risks—this has come up time and time again—often leaving home buyers and would-be home buyers completely uninformed…”

“If there was to be an open-source database for sales?”

“That is shocking to hear.”

“Thank you all for being here. Karen, I am obviously the Suffolk Coastal MP, and you and I have worked closely together over the last few months on some of the coastal erosions you have alluded to. For context and for the record, we have some active erosion in my constituency at the moment. Thorpeness is the place that …”

“Which Department would have that responsibility?”

“Would you both agree—this was brought up in the earlier session—about the Flood Re principle, of having a coastal Re principle? I imagine you would both be in favour of that. Secondly, would an open-source database that sits alongside a coastal Re model be something you would both advocate for?”

“Thank you all for being here. Karen, I am obviously the Suffolk Coastal MP, and you and I have worked closely together over the last few months on some of the coastal erosions you have alluded to. For context and for the record, we have some active erosion in my constituency at the moment. Thorpeness is the place that …”

“That is shocking to hear.”

“Understood. Thank you. To unpick the issue of Thorpeness and Jean a bit more, one of the biggest lessons—certainly that I have taken away—from this experience is that we have to understand that these people are going through trauma. If that is our starting point, then all our stakeholders and all our engagement needs t…”

“Yes, understood. I will move on shortly, but I want to reflect on some of the other traumas that come with this, just to put it on record. There is an element of tourism trauma. For context, Thorpeness is a big tourist destination on the Suffolk coast. In fact, it is a tourism destination that dates back to the Victori…”

“We have one minute left. I have a very quick question, and hopefully we can have a quick yes or no answer, if possible. DEFRA is proposing to reform the FCERM capital investment programme so that all projects under £3 million are funded. Do you think the EA is sufficiently resourced to allow that fund to be allocated s…”

“If there was to be an open-source database for sales?”

“Would you both agree—this was brought up in the earlier session—about the Flood Re principle, of having a coastal Re principle? I imagine you would both be in favour of that. Secondly, would an open-source database that sits alongside a coastal Re model be something you would both advocate for?”

“Which Department would have that responsibility?”

“Going back to what you were talking about a moment ago, sharing the information and making sure it is better communicated, we have been told that the conveyancing profession lacks understanding of coastal risks—this has come up time and time again—often leaving home buyers and would-be home buyers completely uninformed…”

“We are going to come on to that, but I want to push you on the data gathering. One of the concerns that I have in my interactions with the EA, and I appreciate you are more of a strategic oversight, is that there is often a lack of urgency when I am directly engaging with the local EA around some of the issues that we …”

“This can be a yes or no answer. Karen, you alluded earlier to infrastructure projects that could help pay for some of this stuff. Are you saying it is National Grid, Sea Link, LionLink and Sizewell C that could be part of the solution in the Suffolk case? Yes or no?”

“This is the final section, you will be glad to hear. There are a few things that we have been covering off that are particularly interesting. Before I dive into some of the questions around appraising coastal risk, could you give me your views on citizen monitoring and the evidence gathering that is happening in our co…”