Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 97865

Flood Control

Tabled: 8 December 2025
Answered: 11 December 2025

Question

Matt Vickers

ConservativeStockton West

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate the Department has made of the number of communities that remain without modern flood-defence infrastructure.

Answer

Emma Hardy
The Environment Agency (EA)’s National Flood risk assessment data and national coastal erosion risk map provides the best evidence to inform our long-term risk assessment and the development of flood mitigation strategies to protect communities from flood...

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