Flood Control: Finance
(asked on 14th October 2022) - 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 funding the Government has allocated to flood resilience schemes in each year since 2010.
This question was answered on 20th October 2022
The table below sets out HM Government spend on flood and coastal erosion risk management schemes over the last 10 years. The majority of the total represents capital funding for flood risk schemes.
Year | Total Government spend on FCERM schemes £ million |
2011/ 12 | 572.9 |
2012/13 | 576.3 |
2013/14 | 606.2 |
2014/15 | 802.6 |
2015/16 | 710.8 |
2016/17 | 794.9 |
2017/18 | 777.0 |
2018/19 | 792.4 |
2019/20 | 866.7 |
2020/21 | 1,062.8 |