Flood Control: Finance

(asked on 12th June 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, what the grant in aid allocation is for new flood defence assets for each year from 2014-15 to 2020-21.


Answered by
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Rory Stewart
This question was answered on 16th June 2015

Defra has committed to a six-year programme of £2.3 billion capital investment for new and improved defences up to 2021. This is profiled as follows:

2015/16

£395 million

2016/17

£395 million

2017/18

£405 million

2018/19

£410 million

2019/20

£365 million

2020/21

£375 million

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