Agriculture: Flood Control

(asked on 8th December 2023) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of agricultural land at each agricultural land classification grade was at (a) risk and (b) high risk of flooding in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Robbie Moore Portrait
Robbie Moore
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 18th December 2023

Approximately 12% of agricultural land in England is at flood risk from rivers or the sea. Due to the complexity and processing required it is not possible to provide a breakdown over the last five years or at different risk bands within the time frame of a Parliamentary Question.

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