Flood Control: Finance
(asked on 22nd November 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of increasing investment in flood defence schemes.
This question was answered on 18th December 2023
The Government announced in March 2020 a record £5.2 billion investment over 6 years in flood and coastal erosion schemes across England, doubling the amount from the previous programme.
The Government is also investing £200 million in the flood and coastal resilience innovation programme and has invested £170 million of economic recovery funding in 23 shovel ready flood schemes.