Flood Control: Finance

(asked on 19th April 2018) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his Department's press release, entitled flood scheme boost with £36 million of funding, published on 27 March 2018, how many schemes were considered for receiving an allocation of that funding but were unsuccessful in securing it.


Answered by
Thérèse Coffey Portrait
Thérèse Coffey
This question was answered on 25th April 2018

The £36 million of the £76 million funding announced for flood defence at the Autumn 2017 budget has been allocated to the 37 projects listed below. Twelve of the projects, in Devon and Cumbria, were announced in December and the remaining and the remaining 25 were on 27th March.

Funding was requested and provided for all the schemes that would meet the two criteria :- i) a new project could be completed in the next 3 years; ii) the scheme would either generate sufficient benefits in term of reduced flood risk to qualifying for 100% funding or have a high confidence of securing any partnership contributions needed.

Project name / Location

Parliamentary Constituencies

Additional GiA required to March 2021 (£m)

Hull River Defences Phase 2

Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle

11.80

Bath Flood Defence Scheme (Twerton gate replacement)

Bath

4.80

Hexham Industrial Estates Flood Alleviation Scheme

Hexham

3.73

Seahouses Main Pier Rehabilitation

Berwick-upon-Tweed

2.88

Irwell Vale to Strongsty, Lancashire

Rossendale and Darwen

2.43

Torksey Area Flood Risk Management Scheme

Gainsborough

1.60

Sud and Twyver Flood Risk and Restoration Project

Gloucester

1.27

Wallasey Embankment, Wirral

Wirral West

0.67

Warwickshire Property Level Protection Schemes (Galley, Grendon, Fillongley, Bermuda)

Nuneaton, North Warwickshire

0.64

Ashes Road Scheme, Rowley Regis

Warley

0.50

Morton Corner, Gainsborough

Gainsborough

0.44

Summer Lane Improvement Works, Worle, Somerset

Weston-Super-Mare

0.43

Cuttle Brook Increased catchment storage, Derby

Derby South

0.38

Lower Brailes Flood Alleviation Scheme, Welford-Upon-Avon

Stratford-on-Avon

0.38

Upsizing and Diversion of Culvert at Skipton Road, Barnoldswick

Pendle

0.30

Upper Brookstray, Coventry, Flood Alleviation Scheme

Coventry North West

0.29

Eel Mires Dike Flood Alleviation Scheme, Dinnington

Rother Valley

0.29

Broad Oak Water culvert, Accrington

Hyndburn

0.23

Sutherland Road, Cheslyn Hay, Staffordshire

South Staffordshire

0.15

Bennetts Road, Keresley Flood Alleviation Scheme

Coventry North West

0.15

Calico Brook, Appley Bridge - Scheme Review & Enhancement

Wigan

0.11

Waterhead Brook, Wolverhampton Flood Risk Alleviation

Wolverhampton North East

0.10

West Lancashire - Burscough - Level 2 Surface Water Management Plan

West Lancashire

0.10

Welford on Avon Flood Alleviation Scheme

Stratford-on-Avon

0.09

Shropshire Property Level Protection Longden and Worthen

Shrewsbury and Atcham and Ludlow

0.07

Schemes announced in December 2017.

Project name / Location

Parliamentary Constituencies

Additional GiA required to March 2021 (£m)

Whimple Flood Defence Scheme

East Devon

1.03

Laira Avenue/Lipson Vale Integrated Urban Drainage Management scheme, Plymouth

Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport

0.61

Newby Bridge Sluice Refurbishment

Westmorland and Lonsdale

0.10

Railway Terrace Flood Alleviation Scheme, Seascale

Copeland

0.10

Ravenglass Tidal Gate Replacement

Copeland

0.09

Caldew

Carlisle

0.06

Santon Way Flood Alleviation Scheme, Seascale

Copeland

0.05

Gravel Management, Kent at Kendal

Westmorland and Lonsdale

0.03

Gravel Management, Greta at Keswick

Copeland

0.03

Troutbeck Bridge Property Level Protection

Westmorland and Lonsdale

0.03

Gravel Management, Derwent at Cockermouth

Workington

0.02

Longtown Flood Storage Reservoir

Penrith and The Border

0.02

Reticulating Splines