The Pitt Review - Learning Lessons from the 2007 floods

Related Documents

• Emergencies: the legal and operational framework [PDF 7 pages, 158KB] - This document outlines the legal and operational frameworks in place to plan and prepare for emergencies, and to respond to and recover from them. It deals with three main themes: the Civil Contingencies Act; preparation and planning at the local, regional and national levels and responding to emergencies.

• Lessons from previous flood events and reports [PDF 7 pages, 182KB] - This short report accompanies the Interim Report of the Pitt Review to summarise the actions taken or under way as a result of previous reviews of flooding events. It also attempts to set out briefly the main recent developments in emergency planning and response.

• GfK Research - Qualitative research undertaken during October 2007 in areas affected by the 2007 summer floods [PDF 70 pages, 345KB] - The research outlined in this report was conducted as part of the Pitt Review of Lessons Learned from the 2007 floods. The research was commissioned by COI Research Unit on behalf of the Cabinet Office Civil Contingencies Secretariat.

Multi-agency debriefs

These debriefs give information about the response in each area affected during the floods.

The Prime Minister agreed to publish all multi-agency debriefs. Those which are currently available are published here. We will be updating this section with further documents as soon as they become available to us.

• Government Office West Midlands [PDF 8 pages, 268KB]
• Government Office London [PDF 6 pages, 279KB]
• Government Office East Midlands [PDF 11 pages, 316KB]
• Thames Valley [PDF 14 pages, 253KB]
• Humber Local Resilience Forum [PDF 8 pages, 114KB]
• Government Office Yorkshire and Humber - Summary of the LRF and regional debriefs [PDF 8 pages, 249KB]