The ministers topped the investments of the floods in England to a “record” of 2.65 billion pounds, after accusing them of the previous government of “endangering lives” by spending.
The Ministry of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said that an additional amount of 250 million pounds at the head of 2.4 billion pounds was previously announced, to support defenses and protect 66,500 additional drugs of floods over two years.
In the relief system of floods near it body The Electoral Division, the Minister of Floods, Emma Hardy, said that the conservative government’s lack of investment was “a specialty of duty.”
She said: “We inherited the principles of floods in the worst situation ever, which I think can be said to be disrupted in the duty of the last government.”
“The first duty of any government is to protect its citizens, and they fail to protect citizens from floods, endanger lives, put companies at risk, and put homes at risk. So what we say is that we need this huge increase in the budget to 2.65 billion pounds.”
The government said that harmful storms in recent years have also affected the quality of flood defense plans, which left many in need of urgent reform. Others needed to upgrade because they were built when the effect of the climate crisis was not well known.
A total of 31 new green light projects are granted, while 36 million pounds are spent in 2025 to make urgent reforms of the defenses that were damaged during severe flood events.
Upon announcing the new financing, the government stated: “In addition to protecting families from flood destruction, investment supports economic growth by protecting companies, supporting jobs, and supporting a stable economy in facing the increasing risks of floods as a result of climate change.
“It will also protect the agricultural lands that have been afflicted with modern storms, in turn, helping to protect farmers and farmers’ profits.”
The farmers affected by the harsh weather were compensated between October 2023 and March 2024 with more than 57 million pounds. The Agricultural Recovery Fund support 12700 companies to cover the cost of recovering agricultural lands.
With the collapse of the climate contributes to more extremism in the weather and frequent floods, more homes and companies are expected to be overwhelmed in the coming years.
When asked if it was simply not to build homes in the flood -exposed areas, Hardy, who was previously working in a badly flooded school, said that cities like Hull will not be able to build anything at all.
She suggested: “If we cannot build on a flooding plain, it is clear that this is the best. But there are methods of construction that means that homes are not at risk of increasing floods, and most importantly, do not increase the risk of flooding elsewhere.”
While the money was not largely allocated to the flood prevention plans in the source, such as the restoration of heights, Hardy said that the government was also looking to review how the “flood formula”, which is used to customize funds based on the number of property, would be protected.
This means that the plans that have a wider commodity, such as natural flood management, will be easily funded.
She said: “It is very difficult for the natural flood administration to reach a hard account on the number of protected properties.”
“In the government, the conservatives have invested record sums of money in the defenses of flooding and coastal corrosion. To say otherwise it is completely incorrect,” said Victoria Atines.
“Steve Reed did not tell us where these last funds came from, whether in reality the re -mobilization of the money invested by a conservative government, or how he intends to provide support for communities that were frequently flooded by water.”
