Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 47406

Housing: Flood Control

Tabled: 23 April 2025
Answered: 6 May 2025

Question

Blake Stephenson

Conservative — Mid Bedfordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make a comparative assessment of the number of houses built on functional floodplains in (a) the UK and (b) the G7 in the last decade.

Answer

Emma Hardy
The Government has committed to ensure we are building more high-quality, well-designed and sustainable homes and creating places that increase climate resilience and promote nature recovery. Flood risk is an important consideration in the planning system...
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