I think we fut coins could and should have worked

[fifacoinsopp]

I think we fut coins could and should have worked harder to persuade partner organisations in Somerset to undertake some of the longer http://www.futcoinsvip.com/ term work that's needed down there which we were wanting to start last year but we weren't able to get the other bits of money that we needed on to the table.

I should have worked harder to do that - ie I probably should have gone down there earlier than I did.But on the whole I've been actually very proud of the way that the Environment Agency's staff have responded and in the process have managed to protect 1.3 million homes around the country that would otherwise have flooded if our defences and our work hadn't been in place.