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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to prevent flooding in Lancashire.

The government has invested £29.8 million for flood and coastal risk management schemes in 2015/16 and plans to invest a further £91.3 million by March 2021 to reduce the risks of flooding or coastal erosion across Lancashire.

This includes investments to the recently completed Anchorsholme Coastal Defence Protection Scheme, where the government has invested £28.7 million to better protect 4,415 properties, and for the Rossall Coastal Defence Protection Scheme, due for completion in September 2017 where the government will invest around £47.5 million to better protect 7,497 properties.

A further £9.7 million of government funding has been allocated to the Morecambe Wave Reflection Wall, expected for completion in 2019 and better protecting 8,127 properties. The government is also planning to invest £17.4 million on the Fairhaven and Church Scar Coast Protection Scheme, which is expected to start construction in spring 2017 and will better protect 1,357 properties.