Question follow-through · 22959
Agriculture: Weather
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support farm businesses to adapt to adverse weather conditions.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 9 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 17 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support farm businesses to adapt to adverse weather conditions.
13 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Government inherited flood assets in their worst condition on record following years of underinvestment by the previous Government – only 92% of the Environment Agency’s 38,000 high consequence assets are currently at required condition. To ensure we ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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