Flood Control: Finance

(asked on 8th January 2024) - 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 plans to increase funding for flood resilience.


Answered by
Robbie Moore Portrait
Robbie Moore
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 22nd January 2024

The Government announced in March 2020 a record £5.2 billion investment over 6 years in flood and coastal erosion schemes to better protect communities across England. Since April 2021, over £1.5 billion has been invested in flood defence projects across the country and over 67,000 properties have been better protected from flooding. On 26 July 2022, the Government announced the creation of a new £100 million Frequently Flooded Allowance from within the £5.2 billion programme, to support communities that have experienced repeated flooding, reducing the risk of flooding in the future. An additional investment of £170 million of economic recovery funding was provided for 23 flood defence schemes across the country that were shovel ready.

The Government is investing a further £200 million is in the Flood and Coastal Innovation Programme to help over 25 local areas to take forward wider innovative actions to improve their resilience to flooding and coastal erosion.

Reticulating Splines