Silk Stream Flood Resilience Innovation Project: Cost Effectiveness

(asked on 7th February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the results were of the cost benefit analysis undertaken on the Silk Stream Flood Resilience Innovation project.


Answered by
Rebecca Pow Portrait
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 15th February 2022

Through the Flood and Coastal Resilience Innovation Programme (FCRIP) the Silk Stream Flood Resilience Innovation Project is expected to receive approximately £6 million between now and March 2027 to investigate and deliver practical innovative actions. This project includes, for example, the testing and trialling the use of thermo-sensors to investigate and identify the surface water ingress in the foul network.

Local Authorities were invited to apply outlining the innovation they proposed for this Programme. We received 79 applications that were subject to a rigorous assessment, including viability and value for money. I am delighted that this project was one of the 25 across England to be successful

The project team are currently working on an Outline Business Case which they expect to present to the Environment Agency by April 2022. This will provide detailed information on the actions, costs and outcomes they expect to achieve. The Projects will be providing further evidence on the cost and benefit of individual and collective actions, to enable future choices. The aim is to demonstrate which actions can work effectively to improve resilience to flooding and coastal erosion supporting future local actions and wider decision-making nationally.

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