Former floods minister Richard Benyon says leaving EU will allow UK to pay farmers to hold back flood water
Farmers could to be paid to hold back flood water under a post-Brexit rural payments system, according to former floods minister Richard Benyon.
Speaking before Thursday’s publication of the government’s report into the response to flooding in Cumbria, Lancashire and Yorkshire last December, Benyon predicted that more resources would be made available.
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Source: Guardian Environment