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"The Government needs to be investing in new flood defences and ongoing maintenance projects to ensure long-term UK resilience, neither of which was mentioned by the Chancellor. Equally, there was no mention of resilience plans for other extreme weather conditions which the UK will be increasingly susceptible to in future years.
"Every £1 spent in resilience saves £4 in future relief and rebuilding costs, which is why we need to be taking a much longer-term view of UK infrastructure."
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