Question follow-through · 22258
Flood Control: Dredging
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the regular dredging of rivers on flooding.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 7 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 15 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the regular dredging of rivers on flooding.
9 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Environment Agency has no record of dredging the rivers Rother and Hipper during the last 10 years. The Environment Agency (EA) undertakes dredging to manage flood risk where it is technically effective, does not significantly increase flood risk for ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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