Written questions

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...