Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 29705

Rivers: Dredging

Tabled: 6 February 2025
Answered: 25 February 2025

Question

Lincoln Jopp

ConservativeSpelthorne

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to reinstate dredging to increase river capacity.

Answer

Emma Hardy
Where watercourse maintenance is the responsibility of the Environment Agency (EA), it focuses its efforts on those activities which will achieve the greatest benefit in terms of protecting people and property from flooding. This includes dredging, which ...

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