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Cuts to Defra raise concerns over flood defences
MPs warn of flood defence funding gap

By politics.co.uk staff Cuts to funding for flood defences could leave five million properties temporarily at risk, MPs have claimed. The environment and rural affairs committee used its report out today to suggest that plans to shift the burden for funding of defences on to at-risk communities may not come quickly enough. It warned: “There… Read more »