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, (b) outturn and (c) end-of-year surplus was for flood and coastal risk management in her Department in each year from 2010-11 to 2014-15.

All information on historical funding and spending for Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management (FCERM) can be found on the GOV.UK website at: www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/401305/Central_Government_Funding_for_Flood_and_Coastal_Erosion_Risk_Management_in_England_feb_2015.pdf.

All Government funding for FCERM has to be used in the year it is allocated. Defra accrued no surpluses or deficits during the period as all funding provided was used.

Details of spend for the financial year 2014/15 cannot be provided until Defra’s Annual Report and Accounts have been signed off and laid before Parliament.