Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 9989
Flood Control: Finance
Tabled: 18 October 2024
Answered: 23 October 2024
Question
Alex Mayer
Labour — Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that the water industry provides funding for catchment-based solutions for natural flood management.
Answer
Emma HardyDefra recognises that nature and catchment-based solutions in the water sector have an important role to play. The strategic policy statement in 2022 set out the governments priorities for Ofwat. This set out that water companies should significantly incr...
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