Question follow-through · 50986
Floods: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make a comparative assessment of the number of houses at risk of (a) surface water and (b) all other flooding in (i) the UK and (ii) the G7 in the last 10 years.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 8 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 May 2025
- Answer
- 21 May 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make a comparative assessment of the number of houses at risk of (a) surface water and (b) all other flooding in (i) the UK and (ii) the G7 in the last 10 years.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 May 2025
Answer published
Flood risk management is a devolved matter. In England, the Environment Agency’s latest National Flood Risk Assessment published in 2024 estimates that around 6.3 million properties are in areas at risk of flooding from one or a combination of sources: ri...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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