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Landslips

Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN HL1149, tabled on 15 July 2014

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they are supporting, or plan to support, work to repair damage caused by landslips and coastal erosion in the South-East.

Answered on

29 July 2014

The Government announced a support package totalling over £560million to overcome the immediate and longer term recovery issues faced by local authorities, communities, individuals and businesses following the severe weather of winter 2013/14. Coast protection authorities in the South East are responsible for the management and recovery of coastal land slips under the Coast Protection Act 1949.