Flood Control: Lancashire

(asked on 13th April 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 grant funding her Department awarded to (a) Lancashire County Council and (b) West Lancashire Borough Council after flooding incidents, by project, in each of the last five years.


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Thérèse Coffey Portrait
Thérèse Coffey
This question was answered on 20th April 2017

A total of £76,322.70 was granted to properties and businesses in Lancashire flooded during the 2013/14 floods. None was paid to or distributed by Lancashire County Council or West Lancashire Borough Council. The table sets out which councils in the county did distribute funds and the total value per council.

Council

£

Fylde Borough Council

19,603.20

Wyre Borough Council

10,000.00

Lancaster City Council

17,212.50

Blackpool Council

26,757.00

South Ribble Borough Council

2,750.00

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