Question follow-through · 16435
Environment Agency: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of trends in the levels of real terms funding to the Environment Agency between 2010 and 2024.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 26 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 28 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 3 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
26 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of trends in the levels of real terms funding to the Environment Agency between 2010 and 2024.
28 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Dec 2024
Answer published
Environment Agency (EA) funding is closely monitored to ensure that the EA can carry out its duties and functions effectively. Since 2010-11, the EA’s funding has risen from £1.3 billion to £2.1 billion in 2024-25. This is a real terms increase of just ov...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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