Flood Control: Finance
(asked on 28th 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 funding the Government has allocated to flood resilience schemes in each year since 2010.
Answered by
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
All the flood and coastal erosion risk management schemes delivered by the Environment Agency help to increase the resilience of people and places to flooding or coastal erosion risk.
Expenditure 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.
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.
The Government invested in property flood resilience measures for homeowners as part of flood recovery schemes delivered by local authorities in 2013/4 (£24 million) and 2015/6 (£45 million). There are new recovery schemes underway for those impacted by the exceptional flooding of November 2019 (closes December 2021) and February 2020 (closes July 2022).