Flood Control: River Humber

(asked on 2nd February 2022) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to facilitate the development and implementation of the Humber Flood Risk Strategy.


Answered by
Rebecca Pow Portrait
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 9th February 2022

The Humber Strategy 'Planning for the Rising Tides' is already being successfully implemented and has seen over £150 million of investment, improving protection for 70,000 properties.

A new tidal flood risk management strategy for the Humber - Humber 2100+ - is being developed by a partnership of 12 local authorities and the Environment Agency. This will redefine the approach to managing tidal risk on the Humber and prepare communities and businesses for the challenges posed by sea level rise and climate change over the next 100 years. This work has been allocated £1.5 million from Defra as a pilot to trial and develop ways of planning ahead and making wise investment choices for the decades to come in face of the long-term uncertainties brought by climate change.

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