Flood Control

(asked on 26th February 2015) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how the conclusions of the Environment Agency's long-term investment scenarios were refelcted in funding decisions taken as part of the 2014 National Infrastructure Plan's six-year flood defence grant-in-aid capital programme.


Answered by
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Dan Rogerson
This question was answered on 3rd March 2015

Long-Term Investment Scenarios (LTIS) and the six-year programme were developed by the Environment Agency and published on 2 December 2014. LTIS gives a high level and long term strategic picture of future investment needs using national level data. It cannot support programme level decisions because it does not contain sufficient detail to make such decisions. In contrast, decisions on allocation of funding to individual schemes in the six-year programme are made based on more detailed processes, guidance and local data.

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