Flood Control
Commons · Question 97865 · Tabled 8 Dec 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 11 Dec 2025
Question
Asked by Matt Vickers
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate the Department has made of the number of communities that remain without modern flood-defence infrastructure.
Answer
Answered by Emma Hardy, 11 Dec 2025
The Environment Agency (EA)’s National Flood risk assessment data and national coastal erosion risk map provides the best evidence to inform our long-term risk assessment and the development of flood mitigation strategies to protect communities from flood...