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"Madam President, Commissioner, I welcome this debate and the opportunity to draw to your attention some of the devastation which has affected parts of the North of England, Yorkshire and the Humber as a result of the floods which occurred at the end of June.
I know many people have told me that saw this on television. But I want to bring home to the House here that that impact has not gone away. Today’s estimates are that 2400 businesses have been affected across the region; tens of thousands of homes have been affected and there has been major damage to public infrastructure, railway lines, roads, electricity, water, telephones, schools as well as crops. In the worst-affected regions, even tonight there are still many families homeless, and a number of factories and local businesses as well as railway stations remain closed.
You mentioned the solidarity fund, and potential reforms to it have been mentioned. I hope the British Government is looking to make an assessment of the overall damage in the North of England, Yorkshire and the Humber, and I hope that the Commission will look sympathetically at any bid for the solidarity fund which comes forward.
Also, on mobilising structural funds, I have been talking to people in the Objective 1 secretariat and there is an opportunity to mobilise structural funds to help businesses in particular deal with the crisis.
Looking to the longer term, there has been a lot of debate about whether this was just freak weather or whether it is the impact of climate change. I very much welcome the Commission’s green paper on adaptation to climate change. I think this is a very important piece of work and something we all need to make sure we get right so we do not have to come and debate natural disasters of this kind year upon year."@en1
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