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

To ask His Majesty's Government what is (1) the timeline, and (2) the intended consultation framework, for setting a long-term multi-decade target for flood risk management, as referenced in the 10-Year National Infrastructure Strategy and recommended by the National Audit Office and National Infrastructure Commission.

We are exploring setting a long-term target for flood risk management, as recommended by the National Audit Office and the National Infrastructure Commission.

The long-term target for floods would be a multi-decade target. It would set out the level of flood risk and flood resilience the nation wants and can afford. To set a long-term target we would use the best available information from the Environment Agency derived from the new national flood risk assessment.