Flood Control: Expenditure
(asked on 25th September 2020) - 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 the Environmental Agency has spent on flood defence measures in each year since 2010.
Answered by
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Expenditure on flood and coastal erosion risk management by the Environment Agency 2010/11 – 2018/19 can be found in table 2 (page 5) of the document available at the following link: www.gov.uk/government/statistics/funding-for-flood-and-coastal-erosion-risk-management-in-england.
Environment Agency spend taken from the above reference document is as follows:
Financial Year | EA Resource (£m) | EA Capital (£m) | Total (£m) |
2010/11 | 291.6 | 360.0 | 651.6 |
2011/12 | 287.8 | 260.7 | 548.5 |
2012/13 | 268.0 | 269.1 | 537.1 |
2012/14 | 250.6 | 315.3 | 565.9 |
2014/15 | 282.6 | 466.7 | 749.3 |
2015/16 | 274.5 | 390.7 | 638.2 |
2016/17 | 314.6 | 446.9 | 761.5 |
2017/18 | 339.2 | 403.1 | 742.3 |
2018/19 | 304.8 | 453.0 | 757.8 |
Figures for 2019/20 spend are still in the process of being audited and will be available in an updated document on the GOV.UK website soon.