Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much has been spent on flood defences in South Thanet in each of the last five years.
Between April 2011 and March 2016, £31.2 million have been spent in the South Thanet constituency to deliver flood and coastal risk management schemes, better protecting 1,918 properties. The table below summarises spending for each of the last five years.
2015/16 | £3,444,630 |
2014/15 | £9,673,122 |
2013/14 | £8,258,145 |
2012/13 | £9,282,870 |
2011/12 | £590,203 |