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Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 66772

Flood Control: Buckingham and Bletchley

Tabled: 10 July 2025
Answered: 16 July 2025

Question

Callum Anderson

Labour — Buckingham and Bletchley

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his Department's policy paper entitled Flood and coastal erosion risk management: an investment plan for 2021 to 2027, published on 29 July 2021, what estimate his Department has made of the number of flood defence schemes funded under the plan that affect communities in Buckingham and Bletchley constituency.

Answer

Emma Hardy

In the Buckingham and Bletchley Constituency, four projects have received, or have had funding allocated, within the current FCRM investment-plan period which is now due to end in March 2026. Projects include delivery of Natural Flood Management (NFM) in Leckhampstead, an NFM catchment opportunity study, investigation into Sustainable-Urban-Drainage measures in Tingewick and works to Thornborough Sluice.