PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Flood Control (16 December 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of the £12.5 million allocated to the Environment Agency for temporary flood defences, as set out in the National Flood Resilience Review, has been spent by the Environment Agency since the publication of that review in September 2016.

Asked by:
Rachael Maskell (Labour)

The Environment Agency has spent all of the £7.65 million allocated for use in 2016/17. The majority of this funding has been used to purchase around 20 miles of temporary flood barrier, which increases the Environment Agency’s overall holding to around 25 miles. The Environment Agency has also doubled their stock of sandbags from 250,000 to 500,000 and purchased two additional Incident Command Vehicles.

The Environment Agency will use the remainder of the funding in 2017/18 to purchase an additional 70 pumps and ancillary equipment, three further Incident Command Vehicles and storage and logistics capabilities.

Answered by:
Dr Thérèse Coffey (Conservative)
23 December 2016