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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of treating storm-driven coastal erosion as an emergency event for the purposes of funding support for (a) affected households and (b) local authorities.

The Government invested £539 million to manage coastal erosion, sea flooding, and tidal flooding between 2024 and 2026. The Government has implemented major changes to its flood and coastal erosion funding policy to make it quicker and easier to deliver the right defences in the right places.