Floods

(asked on 8th December 2021) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he plans to take to rapidly protect communities that experience flooding in winter 2021-22.


Answered by
Rebecca Pow Portrait
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 16th December 2021

The Environment Agency (EA) is prepared to take action this winter wherever it is needed. It has 6,000 trained staff, 40km of temporary barriers and over 250 mobile pumps that can be deployed anywhere in England within 48 hours. The EA will use its flood warning system to directly alert those at risk when flooding is expected.

If flood defences are damaged during the winter, the EA will take rapid action to carry out temporary repairs or put in place contingency measures to keep communities safe.

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