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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will provide additional funding to help tackle flooding in Shrewsbury.

Significant investment in flood risk mitigation is taking place in Shrewsbury and the wider Severn Valley. Flood defence schemes in the Shrewsbury and Atcham constituency and wider surrounding areas are already benefitting from around £20 million of funding for several schemes, including the Severn Valley Water Management Scheme upstream of Shrewsbury. Across the English Severn and Wye region, around £170 million will be invested in flood and coastal erosion risk management from 2021 to 2027.