Question follow-through · 27929

Flood Control: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help support people affected by flooding caused inadvertently by flood relief schemes.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

About this written question

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Answering body: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled: 31 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 5 Feb 2025
Answer: 7 Feb 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

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Votes on this topic

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Recorded timeline

31 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help support people affected by flooding caused inadvertently by flood relief schemes.
5 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Feb 2025
Answer published
When building flood defences there is a legal requirement that any development cannot increase the flood risk to communities either upstream or downstream, and if an increase in risk is identified, it must be mitigated.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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