Environment Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 27 July 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer of 7 July 2010, Official Report, column 456W, on departmental public expenditure, from (a) what areas and (b) which projects the expected saving in flood management will be made.
The Environment Agency has agreed the changes in the regional programmes (resulting from the in-year savings) with Regional Flood Defence Committees. These will not impact on the delivery of construction projects due to finish this year.
The Environment Agency is significantly ahead of its target to protect households. It is on course to deliver better protection to at least 160,000 households by March 2011, against a target of 145,000.
The areas where expenditure has been reduced, resulting in £30 million in-year savings in flood management are: project costs (£26.2 million), strategic assessments (£2 million) and operational activity (£1.8 million).
The following table shows the schemes which contribute to the £30 million in- year spending cuts for 2010/11 and the Regional Flood Defence Committee areas in which they are located.
RFDC | Projects |
Anglian Central | Godmanchester FD Improvement Scheme |
Anglian Central | Ouse Washes |
Anglian Central | Thetford No 1 Sluice |
Anglian Central | Welmore Lake Sluice Pump Improvements |
Anglian Eastern | Ipswich M&E |
Anglian Eastern | Wallasea Island |
Anglian Northern | Humber Tetney to Saltfleet 1&2 |
Anglian Northern | Wisbech Defences |
Midlands | Sheepwash Repairs |
Midlands | Childswickham and Murcot |
Midlands | Upton Upon Severn |
Midlands | Gunness |
Midlands | Newark FAS |
Midlands | Gainsborough Frontages |
North West | Didsbury Flood Basin Drainage imps |
Northumbria | Blyth Sea Defences |
Southern | Cleve Hill Land Purchase |
Thames | Salmons Brook FAS |
Thames | B&D Frontage; R006 01 La Porte Chemicals |
Thames | CAP Refurbishment Prog Thames |
Thames | Graveney Channel Fencing and Future Maintain HandS |
Thames | R Brent Remedials |
Thames | R Crane Remedials |
Thames | Regional FW Telemetry: Phase VII |
Thames | B&C Package 2 - 6 EA Bridges - ncpms |
Thames | Benson Weir Walkways |
Thames | Poyle Channel Improvements |
Thames | B&C Package 1 - 3 Non EA Bridges |
Thames | B&C Package 3 -10 EA Bridges |
Thames | Osney Depot Dry Dock Gates |
Thames | Greenwich Package 14 |
Thames | Rainham Creek Dam E017 |
Yorkshire | Donna Nook |
Yorkshire | Catterick |
Yorkshire | River Spen |
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