Flood Control: Finance
(asked on 12th 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, how many flood risk schemes have been allocated funding via the Flood Defence Grant in Aid; and in which locations funded schemes have been.
Answered by
Robbie Moore
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This Government is acting to drive down flood risk from every angle.
The Government announced in March 2020 a record £5.2 billion investment over six years in flood and coastal erosion schemes to better protect communities across England. Since 2021, £1.5 billion has so far been invested in flood defence projects across the country. The Investment Plan for the six-year floods programme, published in 2021, provided indicative information about regional allocation of investment. The range of projects in the programme is refreshed annually to take account of changes in local projects, and now also the impacts of inflation and COVID-19 on the programme.
Our previous floods investment programme ran from 2015 to 2021. The number of projects and homes better protected by region is provided in the table below.
Office of National Statistics Region | April 2015 to March 2021 number of projects that were invested in and delivered homes better protected | April 2015 to March 2021 homes better protected |
East Midlands | 70 | 38,200 |
East of England | 78 | 11,500 |
London | 30 | 20,100 |
North East | 84 | 6,500 |
North West | 116 | 37,600 |
South East | 129 | 80,600 |
South West | 133 | 28,500 |
West Midlands | 99 | 7,500 |
Yorkshire | 115 | 83,800 |
Total | 854 | 314,300 |