| Heading: |
Flood Control: Finance |
| Question ID: |
1760905 |
| UIN: |
27929 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-31 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5150 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Samantha Niblett
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Samantha Niblett
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help support people affected by flooding caused inadvertently by flood relief schemes. |
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true |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-07 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4645 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Emma Hardy
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Emma Hardy
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| Answer text: |
When building flood defences there is a legal requirement that any development cannot increase the flood risk to communities either upstream or downstream, and if an increase in risk is identified, it must be mitigated. |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |