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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many flood defence schemes her Department has funded in each month since 2015; and if she will make a statement.

The Environment Agency does not fund flood and coastal risk management schemes on a monthly basis. These schemes are funded through the 6 year capital investment programme, which runs between April 2015 and March 2021 and will deliver over 1,500 flood defence schemes, better protecting more than 300,000 homes from flooding.

Since April 2015, on average 696 schemes are in progress every month.

The delivery of the programme is monitored continuously and funding is reviewed annually. The latest 6 year capital investment programme is available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/programme-of-flood-and-coastal-erosion-risk-management-schemes.