Question follow-through · 900901
Flood Control: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what powers her Department has to hold local authorities accountable for their performance in maintaining flood defences.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 2 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 9 Jul 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what powers her Department has to hold local authorities accountable for their performance in maintaining flood defences.
9 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jul 2026
Answer published
The Hon Member is right to raise this important issue and I know from visiting her constituency the impact of flooding on her local community. It is essential that local authorities maintain their flood defences as part of their statutory flood risk manag...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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