Question follow-through · 12350
Flood Control: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding his Department plans to provide to help manage the increased flood risk for rural areas prone to (a) river and (b) surface flooding in the 2025-26 financial year.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 1 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 5 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 14 Nov 2024 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding his Department plans to provide to help manage the increased flood risk for rural areas prone to (a) river and (b) surface flooding in the 2025-26 financial year.
5 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Nov 2024
Answer published
Across England, we will invest £2.4 billion over the next two years to improve flood resilience, by maintaining, repairing and building flood defences. The list of projects to receive Government funding in 2025/26 will be consented over the coming months ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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