Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Environment Agency has updated its 2017 Aldingbourne Rife flood risk management study.
Answer
The Environment Agency is not planning to update the 2017 Aldingbourne Strategy, but it does continue to monitor the catchment using innovative techniques to provide assurance that the strategy still represents the current situation in Aldingbourne.
Verdict: GREEN (82/100)
The reply clearly answers the question: the Environment Agency has not updated the 2017 Aldingbourne strategy and is not planning to. It gives a reason, that the agency continues to monitor the catchment and believes the strategy still reflects current conditions. The reason is brief and does not say what the monitoring involves, so a reader wanting more detail on the evidence would need to ask a follow-up.
How we got there
| Question item | Coverage | Specificity | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whether the Environment Agency has updated its 2017 Aldingbourne Rife flood risk management study. | Addressed | Direct | The reply directly answers that the Environment Agency has not updated the 2017 Aldingbourne strategy and is not planning to do so (statement 1), and gives a stated reason: it continues to monitor the catchment with innovative techniques to confirm the strategy still reflects current conditions (statements 2 and 3). |