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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her Department's £200 million innovative resilience programme, how much of that funding (a) has been awarded to projects and (b) is available.

In the 2020 Budget, the Government announced a £200 million Flood and Coastal Resilience Innovation Programme. The programme runs from 2021 to 2027, with the projects already underway.

• £150 million has been allocated to 25 local areas across England to trial and demonstrate which practical innovative actions can work to improve resilience to flooding and coastal erosion.
• £36 million is dedicated to the coastal transition accelerator programme with projects in East Riding of Yorkshire, North Norfolk, Dorset, and Cornwall, where they are exploring opportunities that support communities and businesses to adapt to a changing coast.
• A further £8 million is allocated to the adaptation pathways programme for work on long term planning for climate adaptation in the Thames and Humber estuaries, the Severn Valley, and Yorkshire.

The remaining available funding is being used to provide strategic support across all the projects and the evaluations of the programme.