Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 9553

Flood Control

Tabled: 16 October 2024

Answered: 21 October 2024

Named Day

Question

Patrick Spencer

Independent — Central Suffolk and North Ipswich

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will have discussions with the Environment Agency on clarifying its position relating to the ability of landowners to maintain stretches of waterway on their land to help reduce

Answer

Emma Hardy

The Environment Agency has proactively engaged riparian landowners setting out responsibilities, where there might be exemptions and how they can get help. This has already reached several communities affected in Storm Babet – in Central Suffolk and North...

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