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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much has been spent from the public purse on flood (a) defence and (b) prevention schemes in (i) North and (ii) West Yorkshire in each of the last 10 years.

The table below summarises Government capital spend on flood and coastal risk management works in North and West Yorkshire for each year between April 2007 and March 2016. These investments included funding for flood alleviation schemes in Todmorden, completed in 2008 at a cost of £35.1 million, Wakefield, completed in 2013 at a cost of £30.9 million, Selby completed in 2009 at a cost of £17.9 million and Ripon completed in 2012 at a cost of £14.9 million. A flood alleviation scheme in York (Water end) and a coastal erosion scheme at Sandsend were also completed in 2014 and 2015 at a cost of £4.2 million and £7.1 million respectively.

The Environment Agency does not retain historic spend data prior to 2007 which can be split by specific geographic regions consistently. This is due to different financial accounting systems being in place prior to 2007.