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 Government plans to spend on flood and coastal erosion risk management in England in each of the next five years.

The figures below detail planned Government capital spending on flood and coastal erosion risk management in England. Contributions to flood or coastal defence improvements from other sources are not included. Budgets for 2021-22 and beyond have not been set.

In addition to the capital spending outlined above, we will be spending over £1 billion on the maintenance of flood defence assets between 2015 and 2020.

The figures in the (above) table vary from the published spending figures due to the autumn 2017 budget announcements, where an additional £76 million was allocated.