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.
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 |