Asked by: Rosie Cooper (Labour - West Lancashire)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for West Lancashire of 20 October 2020 on watercourse maintenance in West Lancashire constituency, reference GD/ZA54170.
Answered by Rebecca Pow - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
With regard to correspondence references GD/ZA54309 and GD/ZA54475, I replied to the hon. Member on 17 December 2020.
With regard to correspondence references GD/ZA54170, GD/ZA54244, GD/ZA54254,
GD/ZA54258, GD/ZA54301 and GD/ZA54412, I replied to the hon. Member on 18 December 2020.
Correspondence reference GD/ZA54476 was answered in the same reply as GD/ZA54475.
Asked by: Rosie Cooper (Labour - West Lancashire)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to respond to the two letters from the hon. Member for West Lancashire of 26 October 2020 on watercourse maintenance in West Lancashire constituency, references GD/ZA54244 and GD/ZA54254.
Answered by Rebecca Pow - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
With regard to correspondence references GD/ZA54309 and GD/ZA54475, I replied to the hon. Member on 17 December 2020.
With regard to correspondence references GD/ZA54170, GD/ZA54244, GD/ZA54254,
GD/ZA54258, GD/ZA54301 and GD/ZA54412, I replied to the hon. Member on 18 December 2020.
Correspondence reference GD/ZA54476 was answered in the same reply as GD/ZA54475.
Asked by: Rosie Cooper (Labour - West Lancashire)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for West Lancashire of 27 October 2020 on watercourse maintenance in West Lancashire constituency, reference GD/ZA54258.
Answered by Rebecca Pow - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
With regard to correspondence references GD/ZA54309 and GD/ZA54475, I replied to the hon. Member on 17 December 2020.
With regard to correspondence references GD/ZA54170, GD/ZA54244, GD/ZA54254,
GD/ZA54258, GD/ZA54301 and GD/ZA54412, I replied to the hon. Member on 18 December 2020.
Correspondence reference GD/ZA54476 was answered in the same reply as GD/ZA54475.
Asked by: Rosie Cooper (Labour - West Lancashire)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to respond to the two letters from the hon. Member for West Lancashire of 9 November 2020 on watercourse maintenance in West Lancashire constituency, references GD/ZA54301 and GD/ZA54412.
Answered by Rebecca Pow - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
With regard to correspondence references GD/ZA54309 and GD/ZA54475, I replied to the hon. Member on 17 December 2020.
With regard to correspondence references GD/ZA54170, GD/ZA54244, GD/ZA54254,
GD/ZA54258, GD/ZA54301 and GD/ZA54412, I replied to the hon. Member on 18 December 2020.
Correspondence reference GD/ZA54476 was answered in the same reply as GD/ZA54475.
Asked by: Rosie Cooper (Labour - West Lancashire)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to respond to the two letters from the hon. Member for West Lancashire of 11 November 2020 on watercourse maintenance and Internal Drainage Boards in West Lancashire constituency, references GD/ZA54475 AND GD/ZA54476.
Answered by Rebecca Pow - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
With regard to correspondence references GD/ZA54309 and GD/ZA54475, I replied to the hon. Member on 17 December 2020.
With regard to correspondence references GD/ZA54170, GD/ZA54244, GD/ZA54254,
GD/ZA54258, GD/ZA54301 and GD/ZA54412, I replied to the hon. Member on 18 December 2020.
Correspondence reference GD/ZA54476 was answered in the same reply as GD/ZA54475.
Asked by: Rosie Cooper (Labour - West Lancashire)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for West Lancashire of 9 November 2020 on flooding and litter in West Lancashire constituency, reference GD/ZA54309.
Answered by Rebecca Pow - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
With regard to correspondence references GD/ZA54309 and GD/ZA54475, I replied to the hon. Member on 17 December 2020.
With regard to correspondence references GD/ZA54170, GD/ZA54244, GD/ZA54254,
GD/ZA54258, GD/ZA54301 and GD/ZA54412, I replied to the hon. Member on 18 December 2020.
Correspondence reference GD/ZA54476 was answered in the same reply as GD/ZA54475.
Asked by: Rosie Cooper (Labour - West Lancashire)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to respond to the two letters from the hon. Member for West Lancashire of 26 October 2020 on watercourse maintenance in West Lancashire constituency.
Answered by Rebecca Pow - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
I apologise for the delay in responding. Replies to the hon. Member's letters have been prepared and will be issued very shortly.
Asked by: Rosie Cooper (Labour - West Lancashire)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for West Lancashire of 20 October 2020 on watercourse maintenance in West Lancashire constituency and Environment Agency funding.
Answered by Rebecca Pow - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
I apologise for the delay in responding. Replies to the hon. Member's letters have been prepared and will be issued very shortly.
Asked by: Rosie Cooper (Labour - West Lancashire)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for West Lancashire of 27 October 2020 on behalf of the National Farmers Union on watercourse maintenance in West Lancashire constituency.
Answered by Rebecca Pow - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
I apologise for the delay in responding. Replies to the hon. Member's letters have been prepared and will be issued very shortly.
Asked by: Rosie Cooper (Labour - West Lancashire)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of allocating additional funding to the Environment Agency to fund the desilting of land in West Lancashire constituency so that that land can be effectively drained to protect crops from loss and damage.
Answered by Rebecca Pow - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
De-silting (also referred to as dredging) and clearing channels, are important parts of the Environment Agency’s (EA) river maintenance regime. The EA will undertake these activities where there is evidence that they will reduce flood risk to local properties cost effectively without increasing flooding downstream.
Typically over each of the past three years the Environment Agency has spent between £45 million and £55 million a year on channel maintenance, of which between £5 million and £11 million is for dredging.
Channel maintenance in West Lancashire, where the majority of watercourses are man-made for drainage, includes a range of activities to maintain conveyance such as desilting, weed cutting and removing blockages. Locally over the last three years in West Lancashire the EA has carried out £175,000 worth of desilting, as part of its recurring maintenance programme.