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Flood Control: Finance

Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN HL1963, tabled on 26 February 2020

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to invest further in flood defences.

Answered on

11 March 2020

The Government is doubling funding for flood defences to £5.2 billion in this week’s Budget, helping to build 2000 new flood and coastal defence schemes and better protecting 336,000 properties across the country.