questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions his Department has had with the Environment Agency on trends in the level of (a) dredging and (b) desilting as a means of flood prevention.
answerText: Ministers and Defra officials regularly meet with the Environment Agency to discuss flood and water management issues, including dredging.The Environment Agency assesses each situation individually and dredge when it is the right solution, and it provides...
heading: Flood Control