Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much and what proportion of the £5.2 billion investment for flood defence measures announced in 2020 has been spent so far; and which projects have been supported by that funding.

Between April 2021 and March 2022 Government invested £742 million of capital funding in Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management (FCERM).

The Environment Agency expects to have spent approximately £1.5 billion, or just under 30% of the £5.2 billion allocation, by the end of March 2023.

A list of capital schemes protecting properties, completed between April 2021 and March 2022 is available from data.gov.uk.