Written questions

Coastal Erosion and Flood Control: Finance

Commons · Question 10076 · Tabled 21 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 29 Oct 2024

Question

Asked by Dame Caroline Dinenage

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 9 October 2024 to question 6040 on Flood Control: Alverstoke, what discussions he has had with the Environment Agency on Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Manage

Answer

Answered by Emma Hardy, 29 Oct 2024

Defra Ministers regularly meet with the Environment Agency’s leadership team to discuss delivery of departmental priorities, including the floods investment programme. We have inherited a programme which is behind schedule due to the impacts of inflation,...