Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department has spent on flood defence by region in the UK in the last 12 months.
This is a devolved matter and the information provided therefore relates to England only.
Defra provides most of its funding for flood and coastal erosion risk management (FCERM) to the Environment Agency (EA) as grant-in-aid, which is the mechanism for financing non-departmental public bodies such as the EA. The EA spends this funding directly on managing flood risk, but it also passes some of this funding on as capital grants for flood or coastal erosion defence improvements to local authorities or Internal Drainage Boards.
The EA allocated capital grant-in-aid for 2019/20 per Office for National Statistics (ONS) region as follows. This information is a forecast only, based on the EA’s current consented FCERM investment programme (approved and published in April 2019).
ONS Region | 2019/20 £ |
East Midlands | 67,321,698 |
East of England | 55,614,346 |
London | 40,116,579 |
North East | 10,119,997 |
North West | 58,167,332 |
South East | 58,641,225 |
South West | 39,507,690 |
West Midlands | 32,554,347 |
Yorkshire and the Humber | 117,484,419 |