The ministers have accused the former government to “risk life” due to lack of expenditures, and then recorded a “record” of 2,655 million pockets in the UK.
The Ministry of the Environment and Rural Issues (DEFRA) has added 250 million pounds on 2.4 billion pounds previously announced earlier to strengthen defense and protect 66,500 real estate from floods over two years. I have been swearing.
In a flood rescue scheme near her hull constituency, the Minister of Flood said that the conservative government's lack of investment was “abandoned obligations.”
“We have inherited flood assets under the worst conditions in records. I think this is definitely the negligence of the last government's duty,” she said.
“The first duty of the government is to protect the citizens, and have failed to protect citizens from floods, expose their lives, expose their business, and expose their homes to protect them. But what we are saying is that this significant increase is needed for £ 2.650 million.
The government said that the storm damage in recent years had also influenced the quality of the flood defense plan. Others needed upgrades because the impact of the climate crisis was not well known.
A total of 31 new projects are given green light, spending £ 36 million in 2025 to perform emergency defense damaged during an extreme flood event.
The government announced new funds and said, “In addition to protecting the family from the devastation of floods, investment protects companies, supports work, and as a result, an economy in the face of increased flood risk. We support economic growth.
“It also helps the farmland that has been severely hit by recent storms, and as a result, to protect the interests of farm companies and farmers.”
Defra reported that the peasants were affected by bad weather between October 2023 and March 2024. The Agricultural Recovery Fund supports 12,700 companies to cover the cost of recovering agricultural land.
It is expected that the collapse of the climate will contribute to the extreme extreme weather and contribute to more frequent floods, which will flood more houses and companies in the coming years.
When asked if it would be possible to build a house in an area where floods were exposed, Hardy, who used to work in a school that had been severely flooded, could not build any cities such as Hull. I said that it means.
She suggested as follows. However, there is no risk of flooding, and more important is that it does not increase the risk of flood elsewhere. “
Although the money was hardly assigned for the flood prevention scheme, such as the restoration of highlands, Hardy is considering how the government is reviewing how the “flood ceremony” was calculated. I did it. It is protected.
This means that schemes with wider profits, such as flood management in nature, are more funded.
“In the flood management of nature, it is very difficult to imagine a hard edge calculation about the number of protected properties,” she said.
Shadow Environment's Secretary Victoria Atkins says: “In the government, conservatives have invested in records in flood defense and coast erosion. Otherwise, it's not true.
“Steve Reed is going to provide support in which the latest money came from, it was a re -packing of money invested by a conservative government, or a frequently flooded community. I don't tell us if it is. “
