Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 4 December 2024 to Question 16252 on Flood Control: Cambridgeshire, what steps the Government is taking to improve the condition of the Environment Agency's high consequence assets in Huntingdon constituency.

The Environment Agency (EA) received an allocation of £155,000 for asset maintenance in the Huntingdon Constituency for 2024/25 and prioritises this budget towards higher consequence areas to ensure the biggest possible benefit to people and property. Alongside maintenance activities, the EA also has planned capital investment of £6.5 million in assets in the Huntingdon constituency across the current 6-year Capital Programme. We continually monitor asset condition and prioritise the funding available based on these ongoing condition assessments.

The Government inherited flood assets in their worst condition on record following years of underinvestment by the previous Government – 92.1% of the EA’s 38,000 high consequence assets are currently at required condition.