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...