To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many of the recommendations of the August 1998 Agriculture Select Committee Report on flood and coastal defences (HC 707) have been implemented. (153702)

All 22 of the recommendations taken forward in the Government Response to the 1998 Agriculture Select Committee Report have been implemented and in many instances additional actions completed.

Copies of the full list of Government actions against recommendations have been placed in the House Library.