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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what targets her Department has set for raising partnership funding for flood protection in (a) 2016-17, (b) 2017-18, (c) 2018-19, (d) 2019-20 and (e) 2020-21.

The Department did not set a target for the amount of partnership funding for flood protection to be raised between 2011 and March 2015, and no annual target has been set for the period from April 2015. The target for the whole six year period from April 2015 to March 2021 is to raise the equivalent of at least an additional 15 per cent of the total capital allocation from partnership funding on top of Government’s contribution.

The partnership funding each year since 2011:

2011/12 = £39 million

2012/13 = £40 million

2013/14 = £83 million

2014/15 = £79 million

2015/16 = £74 million

The above figures are rounded down to the nearest million and include expenditure of funds raised by Regional Flood and Coastal Committees through local levy.