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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on 10 September 2020, Official Report, column 759, which Members she has had Zoom calls with and when on the issue of flooding.


Answered by
Rebecca Pow Portrait
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 7th October 2020

The Government recognises the impact that flooding has had on individuals, businesses and local communities and sympathises with all those affected. The Secretary of State, myself and the department have been actively engaging with hon. Members whose constituencies have been affected by flooding.

I am always willing to discuss flooding, or other pertinent matters, with hon. Members, and I refer the hon. Member to the reply previously given on 17 September 2020, PQ UIN89799. [https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-09-14/89799]

For completeness, meetings and other engagements I have had with hon. Members so far this year are detailed below.

Date

Event

8 October 2020

Meeting with South Yorkshire November 2019 flood-affected Members and other local risk management authorities

7 October 2020

End of day debate, flooding in Staffordshire, led by the hon. Member for Stafford

1 September 2020

Meeting with the hon. Member for South Ribble

30 September 2020

End of day debate, flooding preparedness in Yorkshire, led by the hon. Member for Barnsley Central

21 July 2020

All-Party meeting about the Severn Valley, attended by the hon. Members for Shrewsbury and Atcham, Gloucester, Montgomeryshire, West Worcestershire, North Herefordshire, Stroud, Stafford, the Rt Hon Member for Ludlow, and Defra’s PPS the hon. Member for Brecon and Radnorshire

20 July 2020

Meeting with the hon. Member for North East Derbyshire

4 June 2020

Meeting with the Rt Hon Member for Scarborough and Whitby and the hon. Member for Thirsk and Malton

3 June 2020

End of day debate, flood defences for Tenbury Wells, led by the hon. Member for West Worcestershire

14 May 2020

Members surgery with the hon. Members for Don Valley and Barnsley Central

7 May 2020

Meetings with the hon. Members for Don Valley and Brigg and Goole

30 April 2020

Meeting with the hon. Member for Cheadle

23 April 2020

Meeting with the hon. Member for Shipley

16 March 2020

Meeting with the hon. Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale

11 March 2020

Westminster Hall debate, flooding of the River Severn, led by the hon. Member for Shrewsbury and Atcham

9 March 2020

End of day debate, improving rainwater attenuation and reservoirs to prevent flooding, led by the hon. Member for Warwick and Leamington

4 March 2020

Opposition debate, flooding, led by the Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the hon. Member for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport

27 January 2020

Meeting with the hon. Member for Macclesfield

30 January 2020

Westminster Hall debate, South Yorkshire flooding, led by the Shadow Minister (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs), the hon. Member for Barnsley East

20 January 2020

End of day debate, Lowestoft flood barrier, led by the hon. Member for Waveney

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