Policy paper

Flood and coastal erosion risk management: policy statement

Sets out the government's policy on flood and coastal erosion risk management.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 14 July 2020
• Last updated: 24 July 2020
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  1. 24 July 2020

     Minor changes to the text under the 'Opportunities for economic prosperity and a clean, resilient economic recovery' heading.

  2. 14 July 2020

     First published.

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

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Flood and coastal erosion risk management: policy statement

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Details

This policy statement sets out the government’s long-term ambition to create a nation more resilient to flood and coastal erosion risk.

The statement has been informed by the:

• Environment Agency’s consultation exercise on the updated National Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy
• results of the government’s flood and coastal erosion: call for evidence in 2019
• an evidence review of the concept of flood resilience
• advice from the National Infrastructure Commission and the Committee on Climate Change

The Secretary of State for the Environment has written to Sir John Armitt, Chair of the National Infrastructure Commission, about the government’s policies to create a nation that is more resilient to future flood and coastal erosion risk.