Flood Control: South West

(asked on 5th December 2023) - 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 steps his Department is taking to improve flood defences in (a) Bournemouth East constituency and (b) the South West.


Answered by
Robbie Moore Portrait
Robbie Moore
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 14th December 2023

a) In the Bournemouth East constituency, around £22m of Defra Flood Defence Grant in Aid (FDGiA) is planned to be invested between 2021 and 2027 to better protect around 3,000 properties from flooding and coastal erosion.

Work is already underway in the Bournemouth Beach Management Programme to reduce the risk of coastal erosion, and to develop Flood Risk Management strategies for the Lower Stour and Christchurch Bay. These strategies will inform future investment needed to both reduce flood risk and adapt to climate change.

Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole Council are developing surface water management plans that will identify high risk locations and measures necessary to reduce the risk of surface water flooding.

b) The Flood and Coastal Risk Management capital programme 2021-27 has planned FDGiA capital investment of around £700m* for the South West region. This investment is forecast to better protect around 21,300 properties from flooding and coastal erosion.

*Please note that allocations are reviewed each year and are subject to change, and numbers for properties better protected are forecasts which are also subject to change. Totals may not include projects that are cross-boundary across multiple regions.

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