Floods: Housing
(asked on 8th April 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many homes in England have been deemed to be at risk of flooding in each of the last five years.
The total number of residential properties at risk of flooding from rivers, the sea, surface water and groundwater over the past 5 years is:
Year | Total number of residential properties at risk of flooding from rivers, the sea, surface water and groundwater (Millions) |
2015 | 4.8 |
2016 | 5.2 |
2017 | 5.2 |
2018 | 5.2 |
2019 | 5.1 |
Total properties at risk of flooding increased between 2015 and 2016 because of better property information from the Ordnance Survey.
The Environment Agency’s programme of investment in Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management will reduce the risk of flooding to 300,000 homes in the six year period to March 2021. However, it does not eliminate the risk of flooding in these areas entirely.