National Hazards Team

Miss McIntosh
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when he expects the national hazards team to be established.

Mr. Watson
I have been asked to reply.

The Civil Contingencies Secretariat is recruiting members of the natural hazards team now and expects to establish the team very soon; in the meantime, work is in hand to initiate the project to identify and counter the risks to national infrastructure from natural hazards.