Flood Control: Finance

Environment Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 27 July 2010.

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Photo of David Blunkett David Blunkett Labour, Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough

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.

Photo of Richard Benyon Richard Benyon The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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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