Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:51 pm on 14 February 2023.
Thank you. I mentioned that we've provided over £71 million to flood risk management activities in the current financial year and, of course, many of those flood defences address the issues that you've referred to. This is on top of similar funding year on year over the past decade. We have to face facts: with our summers getting warmer and our winters getting wetter, we are going to see increased instances of flooding, unfortunately, here in Wales. It is about making sure that the right flood defences are in the right place. There are lots of different flood defences now. The Minister has been very keen to make sure that flood defences that are being built have other benefits as well for communities, and one of them is addressing the pollution problems.