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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to manage a devolved Water Recovery Fund that invests in local resilience through nature-based solutions.

The Government is currently supporting both the Water Restoration Fund (WRF), worth over £10m over 2025-28, and the Water Environment Improvement Fund (WEIF), worth £20m over the SR period (2025-29), supporting local interventions from water quality assessments and development of catchment plans to river re-naturalisation, floodplain reconnection and other nature-based interventions.