Rivers: Repairs and Maintenance
Commons · Question 97866 · Tabled 8 Dec 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 16 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 total cost of river restoration projects undertaken in the last financial year.
Answer
Answered by Emma Hardy, 16 Dec 2025
The Water Restoration Fund was launched in April 2024. It is reinvesting funding based on water company environmental fines and penalties into projects to improve the water environment. Natural England supports and advises the Rural Payments Agency and th...