Environment Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 11 February 2013.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps his Department is taking to protect coastal towns from potential flooding.
Current preparedness and processes for managing risk from coastal flooding and coastal erosion are set out within the National Flood Emergency Framework, the Lead Government Department Plan for Flooding and the Flood Rescue Enhancement Project Concept of Operations.
This Government are on course to spend £2.3 billion on reducing the risk from flooding and coastal erosion over this spending period (April 2011 to March 2015). We expect to better protect 165,000 households over the same period.
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