Flood Control

(asked on 23rd January 2017) - 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 of the £170 million announced for flood defence and resilience measures in the Autumn Statement 2016 has been spent; and on what projects that funding has been spent.


Answered by
Thérèse Coffey Portrait
Thérèse Coffey
This question was answered on 26th January 2017

Three schemes will benefit from the £20 million allocated for new flood defence investment announced in the Autumn Statement 2016.

The three schemes are as follows;

  • £17 million for Burton Upon Trent Flood Alleviation Scheme (Staffordshire),
  • £2 million for Otley Flood Alleviation Scheme (Yorkshire); and
  • £1.7 million for Stainforth Dunston Hill Flood Alleviation Works (Yorkshire).

In total the schemes will better protect 5,000 properties (4,100 home and 900 non-residential properties).

£150 million of the funding is intended to improve the resilience of roads and rail infrastructure in areas that experienced severe flooding last winter. The Department for Transport will announce further details of the investment in due course.

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