Question follow-through · 7888
Floods: Hitchin
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Environment Agency on the response to flooding in the Hitchin constituency.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 8 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 14 Oct 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Environment Agency on the response to flooding in the Hitchin constituency.
14 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Oct 2024
Answer published
Protecting communities around the country from flooding is one of Defra’s five core priorities. That is why we have established a Flood Resilience Taskforce to improve coordination of the national and local flood response and strengthen preparedness ahead...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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