Anne Main (St Albans, Conservative) | Hansard source

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent assessment the Environment Agency has made of flooding risk in St Albans constituency.

Jane Kennedy (Minister of State (Farming and the Environment), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Liverpool, Wavertree, Labour) | Hansard source

The Environment Agency undertook a Flood Risk Management Study of the Upper Colne catchment in 2005. This included the constituency of St Albans. A catchment flood management plan has also been prepared by the Environment Agency for Thames Region, this was approved in July 2008. The catchment flood management plan is publicly available on the Environment Agency website.

The Environment Agency provided flood risk data to St Albans city and district council in 2007 to help the council prepare a strategic flood risk assessment (SFRA). The Environment Agency also provided the council with information on areas susceptible to surface water flooding in August 2008.