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 adequacy of flood protection measures in Severn Stoke, Worcestershire.

Severn Stoke has currently been assessed as benefiting from a 20% annual probability flood level of protection (1 in 5 years) through a low-level agricultural defence.

The Environment Agency (EA) is working in partnership with the community to reduce the impacts of flooding. The EA anticipates submitting for an outline planning application this winter for the construction of an earth embankment bund with ancillary structures to provide protection against a 1% annual flood (1 in 100 years).