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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the (a) budget and (b) planned completion date is of each of the schemes in her Department's Flood and coastal resilience innovation programme for 2021 to 2027.

The £200m Flood and Coastal Resilience Innovation Programme is a 6-year programme. Between 2021 and 2027, the flood and coastal resilience innovation fund, managed by the Environment Agency, will allocate:

• £150 million to 25 local areas to demonstrate how practical innovative actions can work to improve resilience to flooding and coastal erosion.
• £36m to the coastal transition accelerator programme which has commenced with projects in East Riding of Yorkshire, North Norfolk and may include other locations in the future, to explore and support communities and businesses to adapt to a changing coast.
• £8 million to the adaptation pathways programme for work on long term planning for climate adaptation in the Thames and Humber estuaries, the Severn Valley and Yorkshire

The remaining funds will be used to support the projects and the evaluation of the programmes.

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