The UK’s response to hurricanes in its Overseas Territories Contents

Contents

Summary

1 The immediate hurricane response

The UK Government’s immediate response to Hurricane Irma

Availability of immediate resources

Recovery funding announcements

The deployment of a Senior Civilian Representative for Relief and Reconstruction

Conclusions

2 Recovery and resilience

The state of infrastructure in the affected Overseas Territories

Government and private sector recovery funding

Other sources of recovery funding

Improving hurricane resilience

Conclusions

3 Institutional and constitutional issues

Overseas Territory policy papers

The UK-Overseas Territory constitutional relationship

Individual relationships

Brexit negotiations

Conclusions

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal minutes

Witnesses

Published written evidence

List of reports from the Committee during the current Parliament




Published: 7 March 2018