Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
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.
Answered by Lord Douglas-Miller - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
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 |
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many 'orphan' waste sites deal with hazardous waste; and what recent discussions they have had with businesses about minimising taxation barriers for such sites.
Answered by Lord Benyon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The Environment Agency has no records of orphaned waste sites containing hazardous waste. Local Authorities will hold records of orphan sites on their contaminated land registers.
A Call for Evidence was held from 21 July to 18 August 2022 on a Proposed Landfill Tax Grant Scheme. The Grant Scheme, announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the last Spring Budget, will help Local Authorities cover the cost of landfill tax in land remediation projects. The Government Response to the Call for Evidence was published on 15 March 2023 and the Grant Scheme is currently under development.