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Flood Control

Commons · Question 9553 · Tabled 16 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 21 Oct 2024

Question

Asked by Patrick Spencer

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will have discussions with the Environment Agency on clarifying its position relating to the ability of landowners to maintain stretches of waterway on their land to help reduce

Answer

Answered by Emma Hardy, 21 Oct 2024

The Environment Agency has proactively engaged riparian landowners setting out responsibilities, where there might be exemptions and how they can get help. This has already reached several communities affected in Storm Babet - in Central Suffolk and North...