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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what support his Department is providing to improve flood defences.

The Government is investing a record £5.2 billion over six years in flood and coastal erosion schemes to better protect communities across England.

In addition, at the last spending review the Government increased funding for maintaining existing flood defences by £22 million per year, bringing the total to over £200 million per year.

Our investment in flood defences has seen over 600,000 properties better protected from flooding since 2010, including over 71,000 since 2021.