Flood Control: Yorkshire and the Humber

(asked on 12th January 2016) - View Source
Questioner
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Michael Dugher
(Labour - Barnsley East)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department has allocated to (a) capital investment in and (b) maintenance flood protection schemes in (i) Barnsley East constituency, (ii) Barnsley, (iii) South Yorkshire and (iv) Yorkshire and the Humber in each year since 2010.

Answered by
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Rory Stewart
This question was answered on 19th January 2016

The capital allocation for investment in flood schemes and revenue maintenance allocations for the Yorkshire RFCC area shown in the table below:


Funding in £000’s for the following financial years


2010/11

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

2014/15

Capital investment in schemes

28,800


10,900


17,400


28,800


43,000

Revenue maintenance

12,536


11,516


13,751


10,685


14,409


Environment Agency records regarding historic spend are collated for the geographical area covered by the Yorkshire Regional Flood and Coastal Committee (RFCC) as a whole, which includes Barnsley.

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