Chris Ruane
Labour, Vale of Clwyd
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much funding his Department has allocated for flood defences in each of the next four years.
Richard Benyon
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The table shows how much funding has been allocated for flood defences in each of the next four years.
The allocation for the revenue spend beyond 2014-15 has not yet been finalised although there will be an additional £5 million provided for the Environment Agency in 2015-16 to carry out maintenance of flood defence assets.
| £ million | |||
| DEFRA Funding for flood defences | |||
| Revenue incl maintenance | Capital | Total | |
| 2013-14 | 239 | 294 | 533 |
| 2014-15 | 226 | 344 | 570 |
| 2015-16 | — | 370 | — |
| 2016-17 | — | 377 | — |
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