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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2023 to Question 5961 on Agriculture: Floods, how many farmers have been awarded grants to install property flood resilience measures in each of the last five years.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs does not have data on how many farmers were awarded grants under the Property Flood Resilience repair grant scheme. Farmers are entitled to apply for support under this scheme as either householders or businesses, depending on the property impacted. We can however provide a breakdown of grants provided by households and businesses:

There are two schemes which have run in recent years, not including the currently active Storm Babet (Oct 23) and Storm Henk (Jan 24) schemes.

• The November 2019 scheme covered 18 eligible councils, and provided grants to 978 properties, of which 860 were residential and 124 were businesses.
• The February 2020 scheme had 34 eligible councils, and provided grants to 1,627 properties, of which 1,331 were residential and 296 were businesses.