Flood Control: Finance
Commons · Question 81849 · Tabled 14 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Question
Asked by Dame Harriett Baldwin
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Deprived communities to get new flood defences faster further to the announcement, published on 14 October 2025, how much fund
Answer
Answered by Emma Hardy, 21 Oct 2025
On 14 October, following consultation, the government announced major changes to its flood and coastal erosion funding policy. These changes will be used for the next flood programme starting in April 2026. The new funding policy will optimise funding bet...