Flood Control: East Midlands
(asked on 10th January 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask His Majesty's Government what funds are available for environment agency flood alleviation projects in each county in the East Midlands.
Answered by
Lord Douglas-Miller
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The Environment Agency is committed to better protecting the East Midlands and the area remains a high priority.
In the previous financial year 2022/23, the Environment Agency’s East Midlands Area, which encompasses Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire as well as parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, spent a total of £35.5 million of Grant in Aid funding on flood alleviation projects.
The Environment Agency’s investment plan currently projects spending £155.6 million across the area between 2023/24 and 2026/27.
The table below shows the funding split for each of the counties. Investment that benefits more than one county is captured in the row titled ‘cross county boundaries’.
Grant-in-Aid (GiA) | ||
Counties | Previous Financial Year 2022/23 (£m) | Programme 2023/24 – 2026/27 (£m) |
Cross county boundaries | 3.7 | 23.4 |
Derbyshire | 15.5 | 59.7 |
Leicestershire | 1.3 | 7.8 |
Nottinghamshire | 11.1 | 53.1 |
Yorkshire | 0.2 | 2.0 |
Lincolnshire | 3.7 | 9.6 |
Totals | 35.5 | 155.6 |