Flood Defences: Expenditure
(asked on 1st November 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 his Department has spent on flood defences since 2019.
Answered by
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Information on HM Government spending on Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management (FCRM) is publicly available: Central Government Funding for Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management in England, March 2022.
Environment Agency FCRM Capital Programme government spend since 2018/19:
2018/19 £m | 2019/20 £m | 2020/21 £m |
453 | 501.3 | 610.4 |
Note these figures are for Environment Agency FCRM Capital programme spend only.
(Source: Central Government Funding for Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management in England, March 2022)