Question follow-through · 20507
Flood Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing river dredging to help reduce flooding on agricultural land.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 23 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing river dredging to help reduce flooding on agricultural land.
18 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Dec 2024
Answer published
Dredging and clearing channels is an important option for watercourse maintenance, where it is technically and cost effective, does not significantly increase flood risk for others and is environmentally acceptable. For many locations, there are more effe...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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