Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 25745

Tabled: 28 August 2026

Question

James McMurdock

IndependentSouth Basildon and East Thurrock

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Drought declared in half of England, published on 29 July 2026, what recent assessment her Department has made of the sufficie