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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress the Environment Agency has made in upgrading water pumps at Dock Bridge pumping station in Lytham.

The Environment Agency, as part of their East Lytham Project, has commissioned the framework contractor BMM to replace the pumps and controls at Dock Bridge pumping station, and also to carry out wider improvements to the culvert and storm pump outfall at Dock Bridge, Lytham. BMM are on site and the works are starting now. The work is due for completion in autumn 2017.