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	date	07/03/2023
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Floods
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to research by Fathom and the University of Bristol, entitled A climate-conditioned catastrophe risk model for UK flooding, published on 7 March 2023, whether his Department has made an assessment of the implications for its policies of that research and its forecasting of future damage from UK flooding.
	tabling member constituency	Southport
	tabling member printed	Damien Moore
	uin	160380
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2023 answer text <p>The Environment Agency (EA) flood mapping provides a national picture of flood risk for England. The EA provides all its flood risk mapping as open data, as well as it being available to view on gov.uk services, such as <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fcheck-long-term-flood-risk&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7C31e71a4489564a05304408db2159c001%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638140441613670194%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=aUI1hqGux7CJz3VVrIHfTTd7Za%2BeABiPIrYsS7P7BOk%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">check your long term flood risk</a> and <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fflood-map-for-planning.service.gov.uk%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7C31e71a4489564a05304408db2159c001%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638140441613670194%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=rx9GrlwmsU12G2MDgQ%2FCLCFVtOpNvKNVufYzSu0h2lw%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">flood map for planning</a>. This combines both local and national modelling, and uses industry best practice in terms of modelling software and approaches.</p><p> </p><p>The EA always seeks to improve modelling to reflect the latest climate science, including a major investment in producing a new national assessment of flood risk by 2024. This will be used to update its <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fflood-and-coastal-risk-management-in-england-long-term-investment&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7C31e71a4489564a05304408db2159c001%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638140441613670194%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=0N7%2F52Jo6FKyj1fidxILS44r9yI3snJNTilKJ2eTrRg%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Long Term Investment Scenarios (LTIS)</a> last published in 2019. LTIS are an economic assessment showing what future flood and coastal erosion risk management could look like over the next 50 years in England.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 14/03/2023 17:19:33 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4669 label Biography information for Damien Moore

1601871

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2023
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Floods
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department is taking steps to plan for a potential increase in flooding across the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Southport
	tabling member printed	Damien Moore
	uin	160388
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2023 answer text <p>The Government published a <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fflood-and-coastal-erosion-risk-management-policy-statement&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7C31e71a4489564a05304408db2159c001%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638140441613670194%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=9ub51kIIqYRfyyCPgLOFL9vzVLnrstVf3mfikypHb6A%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">flood and coastal erosion risk management policy statement</a> in July 2020, setting out the long-term ambition to create a nation more resilient to flood and coastal erosion risk. The Environment Agency (EA) also published the <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F920944%2F023_15482_Environment_agency_digitalAW_Strategy.pdf&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7C31e71a4489564a05304408db2159c001%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638140441613670194%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=oXQh5%2FarMqpjlOAdKT56UtRovGwWYka6KCjb5YQISlw%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management (FCERM) Strategy for England</a> in July 2020.</p><p> </p><p>In June 2022 the EA published the <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fflood-and-coastal-erosion-risk-management-strategy-roadmap-to-2026&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7C31e71a4489564a05304408db2159c001%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638140441613670194%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=CZixK0EuXf8e7RmM1z%2FTGXAf4151Bb4KuWDraefPQpg%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy Roadmap to 2026</a>, outlining the practical actions the EA and other organisations will take to implement the FCERM Strategy by 2026.</p><p> </p><p>The EA continues to build and repair flood and coastal defences to make the nation more resilient to flooding, delivering on the Government’s record £5.2 billion investment in flood and coastal risk management announced in March 2020. This has already resulted in more than 35,000 properties being better protected from flooding and coastal erosion since April 2021. A list of capital schemes protecting properties, completed between April 2021 and March 2022 is available on <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fenvironment.data.gov.uk%2Fasset-management%2Findex.html&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7C31e71a4489564a05304408db2159c001%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638140441613670194%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=mAWygPGlZ4bpGqb9S7PlucAo%2B7p6FtCGOaGs76ozk8Q%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">data.gov.uk </a>.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 14/03/2023 17:11:49 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4669 label Biography information for Damien Moore