. >> caroline lucas. >> thank you. our hearts go out to everyone's whose lives are being devastated by the current floods. i'm sure we welcome the prime minister's promise yesterday you will do everything he can both with the relief efforts and building more resilient country for the future. it will be both complacent and ignorant to flout the warnings of his office and adviser who warn climate change will lead to even more such events in the future. and can we confirm for the house d everyone in my write constituency doing everything he can will reverse cuts to the budget and proper funding for flood prevention. increasingly -- > prime minister -- maybe he shouldn't reassure -- >> let me reassure the honorable lady i listen very carefully to my experts in the mets office and environment agency. every cobra meeting starts with a briefing from the mets office. i think it is clear we are seeing extreme weather events and i suspect we will see extreme weather events and need to do everything we can to improve the resilien

. >> last but not least, caroline lucas. >> in light of the prime minister's welcome recognition at lasteek's pmqs that brighton is indeed a superb and sunny place, will he come and visit the brighton energy co-operative in my constituency, which is showing the real potential of community renewables, particularly solar power? will he also acknowledge that if the government's new community energy strategy were to include the provision for energy providers to sell directly to consumers, it would have far more potential? will he pursue that strategy instead of his evidence-free fantasies about fracking? >> i am sure that i will be in brighton before long, and i look forward to hearing the renewable energy story there. i would say that we need both of those things. we have now set out the strike prices and brought in the energy act, so that we can be a real magnet for investment in renewable energy. but i also think that we should take advantage of shale gas, because it provides an opportunity to have clean gas, helping to keep our energy bills down. i would say to those in the green movemen