Floods: West Midlands
Environment Food and Rural Affairs
Written answers and statements, 4 November 2009
Bill Wiggin (Whip, Whips; Leominster, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much funding the Government has allocated for the maintenance and upgrading of flood defences in the West Midlands in the last five years.
Huw Irranca-Davies (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Marine and Natural Environment), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Ogmore, Labour)
The Environment Agency's Midlands Region has spent £114,260,000 to design and construct new defences and maintain existing ones in the West Midlands. The table shows the breakdown between capital, revenue and local levy funding.
This includes major capital schemes constructed at Bewdley, Burton, Cannock, Cheltenham, Hereford, Kidderminster and North Littleton, with flood risk to 8,614 properties reduced as a result.
| 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2009-10( 1) | |
| Capital expenditure (new build/rebuild | 12,610,000 | 7,764,000 | 3,538,000 | 8,014,000 | 12,239,000 |
| Revenue expenditure (maintenance) | 13,400,000 | 14,345,000 | 16,057,000 | 13,393,000 | 12,900,000 |
| Total | 26,010,000 | 22,109,000 | 19,595,000 | 21,407,000 | 25,139,000 |
| Additional local levy (raised by Regional Flood Defence Committee) | 1,495,000 | 1,828,000 | 0,580,000 | 1,171,000 | 2,616,000 |
| (1) Based on current year forecasts. | |||||