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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps she has taken to reduce the effects of coastal erosion; and if she will make a statement.

Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management (FCERM) is a devolved matter for each administration. Defra has allocated £36.7 million FCERM Grant-in-Aid in the 2014/15 financial year to help reduce the effects of coastal erosion in England.