Environment Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 13 February 2014.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what flood prevention measures have been undertaken in Shrewsbury in the last three years; and how many staff of (a) his Department and (b) the Environment Agency have been so employed.
The Environment Agency constructed the £2.4 million Coleham Head flood risk management scheme in 2010, which reduces flood risk for 80 properties. Over the last three years this and the Environment Agency's Frankwell flood defence have been operational 11 times, protecting 150 properties.
The flood risk in Shrewsbury is managed by an integrated team of 72 that covers Shropshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire. It is therefore not easy to give an accurate number for Shrewsbury alone.
There are no DEFRA staff working on flood risk management who work specifically on flood prevention measures in Shrewsbury.
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