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) Bury St Edmunds constituency and (b) the UK in each of the (i) last and (ii) next five years.
The table below summarises Government investment (Flood Defence Grant in Aid or FDGiA) to flood and coastal risk management schemes in the Bury St Edmunds constituency and England between April 2012 and March 2021. Budgets for 2021-22 and beyond have not been set.
Year | Bury St Edmunds FDGiA (£k) | England FDGiA (£m) |
2012/13 | 0 | 269 |
2013/14 | 0 | 315 |
2014/15 | 0 | 479 |
2015/16 | 0 | 403 |
2016/17 | 691 | 447 |
2017/18 | 21 | 413 |
2018/19 | 0 | 450 |
2019/20 | 0 | 490 |
2020/21 | 0 | 459 |