Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 81079

Rivers: Repairs and Maintenance

Tabled: 10 October 2025

Answered: 22 October 2025

Question

Dr Roz Savage

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she will take steps to require the Environment Agency to resume responsibility for the (a) inspection, (b) cost and (c) maintenance of (i) main rivers, (ii) the Avon, (iii) Bri

Answer

Emma Hardy

I fully recognise the importance of flood risk maintenance. The Government has committed to redirecting £108 million in 2024/25 and 2025/26 into urgent flood and coastal defence maintenance to halt the decline of flood asset condition following years of u...

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