Question follow-through · 731
Flood Control: Central Bedfordshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce the risk of flooding in central Bedfordshire.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 18 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 22 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 25 Jul 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce the risk of flooding in central Bedfordshire.
22 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Jul 2024
Answer published
The Environment Agency (EA)’s current Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Capital Programme (2021-2027) includes 10 projects within the central Bedfordshire area, with a current estimated total project value of £3.5 million. This includes several sc...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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