Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 81849

Flood Control: Finance

Tabled: 14 October 2025
Answered: 21 October 2025

Question

Dame Harriett Baldwin

ConservativeWest Worcestershire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Deprived communities to get new flood defences faster further to the announcement, published on 14 October 2025, how much fund

Answer

Emma Hardy
On 14 October, following consultation, the government announced major changes to its flood and coastal erosion funding policy. These changes will be used for the next flood programme starting in April 2026. The new funding policy will optimise funding bet...

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