Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the timescale for planned flood defence infrastructure improvement works.
The Environment Agency manages a rolling programme of flood and coastal erosion risk management improvement projects.
More than 1,400 schemes announced on 2 December are scheduled to enter the development or construction programme between April 2015 and March 2021.
Details of the expected construction start dates for each of the projects is provided on GOV.UK.