PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Flood Control (16 December 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which public authorities have provided partnership funding for flood protection; and how much each such authority has provided to date.

Asked by:
Rachael Maskell (Labour)

The Environment Agency receives spending information from public authorities on both their own flood and coastal risk management projects and the Environment Agency projects to which they contribute.

This information is grouped into “public contributions” for each scheme, enabling the Environment Agency to have an overview of partnership funding available for flood and coastal risk management projects since 2011. Contributions are however not broken down by public authority and the Environment Agency does not hold nationally a list of all public authorities that have provided partnership funding.

Around 300 public authorities, including Local Authorities, Highways Authorities and Internal Drainage Boards, are expected to deliver projects between April 2015 and March 2021. Over this period they are expected to contribute around £300 million in public contributions. This is in addition to other funding sources such as contributions from the private sector and local levy funding.

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