Nicholas Soames’s Question to the Secretary of State for Environment on using the Royal Engineers to restore bridges lost in the flooding in Cumbria and Yorkshire.

Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex) (Con): Has my right hon. Friend considered asking the Army, and particularly the Royal Engineers, to intervene, given that their skills—the sappers’ skills—with bridging rivers is legendary, and they could easily and quickly replace the lost bridges?

The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Elizabeth Truss MP: The Royal Engineers are involved, and they have been involved in both Cumbria and Yorkshire, looking at finding possible solutions for those bridges.

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