Flood Control

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 21 December 2015.

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Photo of Caroline Lucas Caroline Lucas Green, Brighton, Pavilion

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many full-time equivalent Environment Agency staff were employed on maintenance of flood defences on 1 April (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013, (e) 2014 and (f) 2015.

Photo of Elizabeth Truss Elizabeth Truss The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The Government has committed to protect flood maintenance funding in real terms over the course of this Parliament.

The Environment Agency does not record the number of personnel working solely on maintaining flood defences, as the relevant staff undertake a number of activities, including both operating and maintaining defences. Maintenance may also be performed by third parties.

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Anni Hat
Posted on 22 Dec 2015 7:29 pm (Report this annotation)

The Environment Agency is a very strange organisation if it doesn't know what it's staff are doing.
The question was reasonably clear - how many are working on this full time in each of 5 years?