Question follow-through · 17717
Small Businesses: Floods
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he is taking steps to support small businesses with flood damage (a) prevention and (b) mitigation.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 3 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 5 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 6 Jan 2025 · 34 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
3 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he is taking steps to support small businesses with flood damage (a) prevention and (b) mitigation.
5 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Jan 2025
Answer published
Protecting communities and small businesses around the country from flooding is one of the Secretary of State’s five core priorities. That is why we have committed £2.4 billion to invest over the next two years to bolster the nation’s resilience, which is...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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