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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much was spent on flood defence schemes in the Calder Valley area in (a) 1997 to 2010, (b) 2010 to 2015; and what the projected spend on such schemes is for 2015 to 2020.

The following table shows historic and projected annual total spend on flood defence schemes in the Calder Valley area.

Schemes are allocated funding based on nationally consistent criteria. The position of a scheme in the programme will depend on the availability and timing of contributions and how its appraisal or design are progressing.

The projected funding has been allocated in current spending plans and the Government’s National Flood Resilience Review will re-examine worst case extreme weather scenarios and the resulting potential flood impacts across the country.