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 public spending on flood prevention in (a) Fylde constituency and (b) the UK in each of the (i) next and (ii) last five years.
The table below summarises Government investment (Flood Defence Grant in Aid or FDGiA) to flood and coastal risk management schemes in the Fylde constituency and England between April 2012 and March 2021.
Year | Fylde FDGiA (£k) | England FDGiA (£m) |
2012/13 | 210 | 269 |
2013/14 | 595 | 315 |
2014/15 | 112 | 479 |
2015/16 | 0 | 403 |
2016/17 | 657 | 447 |
2017/18 | 15,100 | 413 |
2018/19 | 6,317 | 450 |
2019/20 | 84 | 490 |
2020/21 | 79 | 459 |