Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 35443
Environment Agency: Flood Control
Tabled: 4 March 2025
Answered: 25 March 2025
Question
Blake Stephenson
Conservative — Mid Bedfordshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the increased investment in maintenance of flood defences will allow the Environment Agency to keep 98% of its high-consequence assets in the required condition over the next t
Answer
Emma HardyThis Government inherited flood assets in their poorest condition on record, as years of underinvestment and damaging storms left just 92% of the Environment Agency’s 38,000 high-consequence assets at required condition, meaning approximately 60,000 prope...
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