Environment Agency: Finance
Commons · Question 37093 · Tabled 10 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 13 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Freddie van Mierlo
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the new legal and financial processes required for a partnership funding model for Environment Agency projects.
Answer
Answered by Emma Hardy, 13 Mar 2025
The Government inherited an outdated funding formula for allocating money to proposed flood defences. Established in 2011, the existing formula slows down the delivery of new flood schemes through a complex application process and also neglects more innov...