Flood Control: East Midlands
(asked on 10th January 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask His Majesty's Government what funds are available for environment agency flood alleviation projects in each county in the East Midlands.
The Environment Agency is committed to better protecting the East Midlands and the area remains a high priority.
In the previous financial year 2022/23, the Environment Agency’s East Midlands Area, which encompasses Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire as well as parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, spent a total of £35.5 million of Grant in Aid funding on flood alleviation projects.
The Environment Agency’s investment plan currently projects spending £155.6 million across the area between 2023/24 and 2026/27.
The table below shows the funding split for each of the counties. Investment that benefits more than one county is captured in the row titled ‘cross county boundaries’.
Grant-in-Aid (GiA) | ||
Counties | Previous Financial Year 2022/23 (£m) | Programme 2023/24 – 2026/27 (£m) |
Cross county boundaries | 3.7 | 23.4 |
Derbyshire | 15.5 | 59.7 |
Leicestershire | 1.3 | 7.8 |
Nottinghamshire | 11.1 | 53.1 |
Yorkshire | 0.2 | 2.0 |
Lincolnshire | 3.7 | 9.6 |
Totals | 35.5 | 155.6 |