Flood Control: Lancashire
(asked on 8th October 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of inland flood defence spending in Lancashire in each of the last five years.
Answered by
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The table below shows the total amount of capital spend for inland and coastal flood defence projects in Lancashire since 2015.
Financial year | 2015-2016 | 2016-2017 | 2017-2018 | 2018-2019 | 2019-2020 | 2020-2021 |
Lancashire County Total spend | 33.3 | 37.13 | 19.23 | 22.73 | 14.12 | 16.75 |
Lancashire County Government spend | 30.54 | 35.96 | 18.83 | 21.71 | 11.31 | 9.05 |
Lancashire County homes better protected | 8,752 | 7,781 | 6,113 | 5,728 | 2,562 | 2,287 |
‘County Total Spend’ includes public and private contributions. ‘County Government Spend’ is Government Grant-in-Aid.