Coastal Areas: Flood Control
(asked on 5th September 2016) - 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 much her Department has spent on coastal defences for each UK region, in each of the last five years.
Historically the Environment Agency has not collected separate financial information for the different types of flooding it reduces through investment, but by the community that benefits. Therefore the specific information requested cannot be provided.
The following table shows Government spend on all flood and coastal erosion risk management schemes by Office of National Statistics region between 2011-2012 and 2014-15.
| Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management (FCERM) Grant in Aid Capital Spend (£k) | |||
ONS Region | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 |
East Midlands | 24,670 | 21,567 | 24,533 | 33,594 |
East of England | 32,007 | 23,295 | 28,890 | 46,592 |
London | 12,818 | 7,802 | 13,340 | 15,039 |
North East | 17,138 | 23,716 | 11,463 | 13,190 |
North West | 12,833 | 16,925 | 23,125 | 44,790 |
South East | 32,241 | 46,467 | 38,801 | 63,320 |
South West | 16,476 | 16,048 | 23,731 | 34,450 |
West Midlands | 1,258 | 4,374 | 9,299 | 6,779 |
Yorkshire and the Humber | 20,564 | 22,001 | 37,464 | 59,240 |
As part of the six year capital investment programme the Environment Agency has updated their financial systems and will be able to provide information on schemes for coastal erosion and sea flooding from 2015-16 onwards. Information on budget allocations for coastal erosion and sea flooding schemes between 2015 and 2021 have been provided in the following table.
FCERM Grant in Aid (GiA) budget allocations for coastal erosion and sea flooding schemes | ||||||
ONS Region | 2015-2016 FCERM GiA (£k) | 2016-2017 FCERM GiA (£k) | 2017-2018 FCERM GIA (£k) | 2018-2019 FCERM GIA (£k) | 2019-2020 FCERM GIA (£k) | 2020-2021 FCERM GIA (£k) |
East Midlands | 9,772 | 9,894 | 20,500 | 45,386 | 23,451 | 7,025 |
East of England | 38,702 | 15,641 | 14,031 | 27,408 | 20,660 | 21,631 |
London | 9,105 | 9,228 | 5,891 | 12,080 | 15,986 | 18,115 |
North East | 7,811 | 1,908 | 231 | 268 | 1,343 | 4,626 |
North West | 28,291 | 29,365 | 22,209 | 9,730 | 6,030 | 2,918 |
South East | 31,708 | 40,852 | 56,736 | 52,050 | 52,158 | 64,360 |
South West | 11,018 | 8,147 | 16,550 | 8,658 | 5,807 | 23,095 |
West Midlands | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Yorkshire and the Humber | 7,772 | 21,146 | 21,046 | 16,483 | 14,054 | 11,237 |
144,192 | 136,181 | 157,194 | 172,063 | 139,489 | 153,007 | |