Flooding

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education – in the House of Commons at 3:35 pm on 10 February 2014.

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Photo of John Redwood John Redwood Conservative, Wokingham 3:35, 10 February 2014

As the two main A roads from my constituency into Reading have been closed by floods, and as many homes, businesses and gardens have been inundated, sometimes with foul as well as surface water, will my right hon. Friend assure me that, in future, the £1,200 million budget and the near £100 million cash that the Environment Agency started the year with will be available for schemes that I and others recommend which could stop that water in future? Is it not about time that we had the promise of some action from the Environment Agency?