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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to assess future flood risks.

Creating climate resilient places lies at the heart of the Environment Agency’s (EA) National Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy for England and Roadmap to 2026.

The EA is currently developing a new National Flood Risk Assessment that will provide a single picture of current and future flood risk from rivers, the sea and surface water, using both existing detailed local information and improved national data. The new risk assessment will provide a better understanding of both current and future flood risk accounting for a range of climate change scenarios.

The EA is also updating the full National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping (NCERM) dataset. The update will include coastal erosion predictions for England through this century and provide an updated assessment of residential and non-residential properties at risk. The updated NCERM will be published in 2024 and will provide the best available information on coastal erosion risk.