Agenda item

Report of the Executive Director of Secretariat

Contact: Ian Williamson, [email protected], 020 7983 6541

The Committee is recommended to note the report as background and to put questions to the following invited guests on local and community-led approaches to flood risk management, and on the implications of forthcoming organisational changes at the Environment Agency:

• Peter Quarmby, Thames Flood Risk Manager, Environment Agency; and
• David Wardle, Head of London Group, Environment Agency.

5.1  The Committee received the report of the Executive Director of Secretariat. The following people attended the meeting to answer the Committee’s questions on managing river and surface water flood risk in London:

·  Peter Quarmby, Thames Flood Risk Manager, Environment Agency; and

·  David Wardle, Head of London Group, Environment Agency.

5.2  A transcript of the discussion is attached as Appendix 1.

5.3  Resolved:

That the contents of the report be noted as background to the discussion.