Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Anna Firth and Caroline Ansell

Thursday 10th March 2022 Commons Chamber

[Anna Firth (Southend West) (Con)]

7. What steps he is taking to support coastal communities.

[Caroline Ansell (Eastbourne) (Con)]

10. What steps he is taking to support coastal communities.

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Rebecca Pow)]

Coastal communities are key to our levelling-up agenda, supported by the UK shared prosperity fund, the coastal communities fund and the £100 million UK seafood fund. Up to 2027 we are investing a record £5.2 billion in coastal erosion risk management. That will be invested in about 2,000 schemes and approximately 17% of it is expected to better protect against coastal and tidal flooding. It includes a £140 million coastal project on defences at the Eastbourne and Pevensey coast. We are putting coastal communities right at the heart of this flood protection landscape.