Environment Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 20 April 2009.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much his Department spent on the design and management of each flooding and coastal protection project currently under way in areas at risk from (a) fluvial and coastal flooding and (b) coastal erosion.
The Environment Agency completed 57 nationally managed projects on fluvial and coastal flooding between
The Environment Agency does not hold records centrally on the cost of design and management for most of its schemes below £250,000, nor for pre-feasibility costs for most schemes and for local authority coastal erosion projects.
Table 1: Summary of appraisal/delivery split for Environment Agency projects above £250,000 that have completed construction between 1 April 2008 to 28 February 2009 | ||||
£000 | ||||
Funding | Type of project | Appraisal | Delivery | Grand total |
Flood Defence Grant in Aid (FDGIA) | Coastal | 11,374.6 | 22,314.7 | 33,689.3 |
Fluvial | 6,732.4 | 34,510 | 41,242.4 | |
Other | 1,878.1 | 10,283 | 12,161.1 | |
Tidal | 5,623.6 | 33,722.7 | 39,346.3 | |
FDGIA total | 25,608.7 | 100,830.4 | 126,439.1 | |
FDGIA/Income | Coastal | 228.7 | 12,153.9 | 12,382.6 |
Fluvial | 3,506.1 | 20,361 | 23,867.1 | |
Other | 1,053.3 | 208.1 | 1,261.4 | |
Tidal | 643.5 | 3,008.7 | 3,652.2 | |
FDGIA/Income total | 5,431.6 | 35,731.7 | 41,163.3 | |
Grand total | 31,040.3 | 136,562.1 | 167,602.4 |
Table 2: Appraisal/delivery split for projects that have completed construction between 1 April 2008 to 28 February 2009 broken down by project | |||||
£000 | |||||
Funding | Type of project | Project title | Appraisal | Delivery | Grand total |
FDGIA | Coastal | East Suttons to Denge Interim Beach Man'ment 07/08 | 88.1 | 666.8 | 754.9 |
High Knocke to Dymchurch Redoubt Sea Defences | 10,973 | 20,365.9 | 31,338.9 | ||
Stanah Sea Defences | 313.5 | 1,282 | 1,595.5 | ||
Coastal total | 11,374.6 | 22,314.7 | 33,689.3 | ||
Fluvial | Chatsworth Gauging Station | 59.2 | 90.9 | 150.1 | |
Chelt Gap Culvert | 25.9 | 279 | 304.9 | ||
Chelt Glynbridge Bank Slips | 24.8 | 176 | 200.8 | ||
Cockshaw Burn @ Hexham | 1,808.5 | 10,481.8 | 12,290.3 | ||
Currymoor/Haymoor Project (FC) | 295.2 | 477.4 | 772.6 | ||
Exwick Flood Scheme Improvements | 69 | 224.7 | 293.7 | ||
Flexbury FDS | 342.5 | 3,200.6 | 3,543.1 | ||
Middle Level Barrier Banks Urgent Works | 123.2 | 1,561.5 | 1,684.7 | ||
Newbridge Sluice | 137.5 | 322.2 | 459.7 | ||
River Eden/Petteril Flood Defences, Carlisle | 1,420 | 11,875.9 | 13,295.9 | ||
Silk Stream FAS | 2,363.5 | 5,765 | 8,128.5 | ||
Wakefield, West Riding Quarry Spillway E. Works | 63.1 | 55 | 118.1 | ||
Fluvial total | 6,732.4 | 34,510 | 41,242.4 | ||
Other | Cut Off Channel Bridges | 1,647.8 | 8,916.6 | 10,564.4 | |
Stainforth Emergency Works | 51.6 | 739.6 | 791.2 | ||
Upper Parrett Bridge Package | 178.7 | 626.8 | 805.5 | ||
Other total | 1,878.1 | 10,283 | 12,161.1 | ||
Tidal | Associated Gates Corrosion Protection Systems | 283.5 | 495.1 | 778.6 | |
Denver Little Eyes Refurbishment, Stage 1 | 117.9 | 986.7 | 1,104.6 | ||
Lower Lancaster FAS Phases 1 and 2 | 984.5 | 9896 | 10,880.5 | ||
Lymington River Flood Alleviation Scheme | 1,103.7 | 3,190 | 4,293.7 | ||
Medway Lock Inspections 07/08 | 12.6 | — | 12.6 | ||
Parrett Banks—Thatchers Arms | 130.6 | 387.8 | 518.4 | ||
Rainham Main Sluice Frontage, E022_02 & 03 | 321.9 | 396.3 | 718.2 | ||
Selby Defences inc. Barlby | 2,188.6 | 15,943.2 | 18,131.8 | ||
Thames Barrier Corrosion Protection System | 480.3 | 2,427.6 | 2,907.9 | ||
Tidal total | 5,623.6 | 33,722.7 | 39,346.3 | ||
FDGIA total | 25,608.7 | 100,830.4 | 126,439.1 | ||
FDGIA/Income | Coastal | Southern Felixstowe Coastal Defences | 228.7 | 12153.9 | 12382.6 |
Coastal total | 228.7 | 12,153.9 | 12,382.6 | ||
Fluvial | Boscastle—Valency Flood Defence System | 917 | 5,618.8 | 6,535.6 | |
Hereford FAS | 1,011.4 | 6,370.1 | 7,381.5 | ||
St. Ives—Stennack Stream | 1,577.7 | 8,372.3 | 9,950 | ||
Fluvial total | 3,506.1 | 2,0361 | 23,867.1 | ||
Other | Frampton Habitat Creation Works | 1,053.3 | 208.1 | 1,261.4 | |
Other total | 1,053.3 | 208.1 | 1,261.4 | ||
Tidal | Ipswich Flood Defence Management Scheme: Wet Dock Gates Replacement | 262.4 | 1,598.4 | 1,860.8 | |
Queenhithe Wharf Frontage N230, Repair & Strength | 381.1 | 1,410.3 | 1,791.4 | ||
Tidal total | 643.5 | 3,008.7 | 3,652.2 | ||
FDGSA/income total | 5,431.6 | 35,731.7 | 41,163.3 | ||
Grand total | 31,040.3 | 136,562.1 | 167,602.4 |
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