Environment Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 29 June 2005.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much is budgeted for expenditure on flood defences in the East Riding of Yorkshire in the next five years; and to which projects funding will be allocated.
DEFRA funds most of the Environment Agency's flood management activities in England and provides grant aid on a project by project basis to the other operating authorities (local authorities and internal drainage boards) to support their investment in improvement projects to manage flood and coastal erosion risk. Defra does not build defences, nor direct the authorities on which specific projects to undertake.
I understand from the Environment Agency that their budget for expenditure on flood risk management in East Riding of Yorkshire over the next five years is approximately £41 million (at September 2004 prices). This is made up as follows:
Activity/Project | Forecast expenditure (£000) |
---|---|
Ongoing capital investment | |
Tickton refurbishment | 300 |
Number Estuary Coastal Authorities Group SMP Review | 80 |
Number Monitoring 2 | 570 |
Number Estuary Shoreline Management Plan 3 | 260 |
Number Land Purchase | 3,760 |
East Clough-Brough Haven | 3,130 |
Little Humber-Thorngumbald | 240 |
Reedness Slips at Reedness | 1,200 |
Goole Slips-River Ouse (Hook Road) | 850 |
Saltmarshe Embankment 2 | 400 |
Bank House Slips/Saltmarshe | 800 |
Airmyn and Rawcliffe | 2,000 |
Burstwick Drain | 630 |
Total | 14,220 |
Capital projects resulting from number strategy | |
Paull Village | 3,300 |
BAe to East Clough | 2,900 |
Old Goole | 500 |
Swinefleet | 5,800 |
Erosion Control (Stoning) | 2,100 |
Monitoring and maintenance | 1,100 |
Further studies | 1,700 |
Contingency for urgent work | 2,100 |
Total | 19,500 |
Asset improvements | 1,090 |
Routine maintenance | 2,800 |
COW expenditure | 1,135 |
Support costs | 2,325 |
Grand total | 41,070 |
For local authorities and internal drainage boards, the forward programme is not budgeted at regional level. DEFRA does however hold forecasts of expenditure of individual approved flood risk management improvement projects covering the period from April 2005 to March 2008. These forecasts total approximately £1 million and are made up as follows:
Authority | Project name | Forecast expenditure (£000) |
---|---|---|
Cowick IDB | Cowick IDB First Five Year Strategy | 94 |
Goole and Airmyn IDB | Hook Clough Pumping Station | 150 |
Goole and Airmyn IDB | Downs Ground Pumping Station | 235 |
Goole and Airmyn IDB | Downs Ground Pumping Station Refurbishment | 300 |
Market Weighton IDB | Oxmardyke Pumping Station | 70 |
Market Weighton IDB | Foss Dyke and Tributaries | 2 |
Rawcliffe IDB | Rawcliffe First Five Year Strategy | 187 |
Total | 1,038 |
In addition to this list of approved projects for local authorities and internal drainage boards, there are also a number of planned improvement projects that meet the current priority score thresholds but which have not yet been approved for grant aid by the Department.
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