Question follow-through · 29705
Rivers: Dredging
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to reinstate dredging to increase river capacity.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 6 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 25 Feb 2025 · 19 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to reinstate dredging to increase river capacity.
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Feb 2025
Answer published
Where watercourse maintenance is the responsibility of the Environment Agency (EA), it focuses its efforts on those activities which will achieve the greatest benefit in terms of protecting people and property from flooding. This includes dredging, which ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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