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101547

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Flood Control
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps she has taken to promote flood defences.
	tabling member constituency	Esher and Walton
	tabling member printed	Mr Dominic Raab
	uin	905750
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>We are spending more than £3.2 billion over period of this parliament, compared to £2.7 billion in the previous five years. By March 2015, we will have improved the level of protection to more than 165,000 households.</p><p>We have also improved the funding approach to encourage others to invest in flood defences, so even more schemes can be delivered.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 30/10/2014 17:49:17 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab

106432

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Flood Control
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, where the UK's main mobile flood pumps are based; and what time is taken to mobilise such pumps.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	213377
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>The Government-funded New Dimension project saw the deployment of 50 High Volume Pumps (HVP) positioned across the country, with 46 allocated to 38 English Fire and Rescue Services and four in Scotland; an additional Strategic HVP was located centrally. There are four mobile HVPs in Wales. Under the Fire Rescue Service mutual aid arrangements Wales also have access to all of the strategic assets in England. The planning assumptions for a major incident involving man made or natural flooding, assumes a minimum of one HVP will be mobilised to respond to an incident within a maximum of two hours of request.</p><p> </p><p>The Environment Agency holds a range of strategic incident response supplies at its depots across England, including:</p><p> </p><p>· three 12 inch pumps</p><p> </p><p>· six24 inch pumps</p><p> </p><p>· 425 smaller mobile pumps</p><p> </p><p>· 3.8km of demountable and temporary flood defences</p><p> </p><p>· 21 sandbag machines</p><p> </p><p>The larger 12 and 24 inch pumps can be deployed within 24 hours. The Environment Agency also has access to a further six 24 inch pumps through its contracted suppliers.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 11/11/2014 17:35:40 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

114667

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Flood Control
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many flood defences were affected by the 2013-14 winter floods; how many such defences had been temporarily repaired by 31 October 2014; how many such defences have been permanently repaired by 31 October 2014; how many areas were affected by the 2013-14 winter floods; how many of those areas had permanently repaired by 31 October 2014 all their flood defences that had been damaged by the 2013-14 winter floods; how many of those areas had some of their flood defences only temporarily repaired by 31 October 2014; and to how many of the areas affected by the 2013-14 winter floods the Environment Agency had restored flood protection by 31 October 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Brent North
	tabling member printed	Barry Gardiner
	uin	213530
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>Going into this winter every community that was affected by the storms and floods of last winter will have the same or better standard of protection as they had before last winter.</p><p>Following the tidal surge on 5 December 2013 and the winter storms, a total of 890 recovery projects were identified across England; of these, 844 projects involved the repair of flood defence assets. The remaining 46 involve surveys, studies or actions relating to incident response.</p><p>By 31 October 2014, permanent repairs had been completed for 802 (95%) of the 844 defence projects. There are 42 (5%) defence projects where temporary repairs with contingency measures are in place, restoring the standard of protection to pre-winter 2013/14 levels.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 11/11/2014 16:58:13 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	146 label Biography information for Barry Gardiner

156966

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Flood Control
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department plans to spend on capital investment to improve flood defences in each year from 2015-16 to 2020-21.
	tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
	tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
	uin	215496
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2014 answer text <p>This Government plans to spend the following each year from 2015/16 to 2020/21 on capital investment to reduce the risks of flooding and coastal erosion.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Capital </strong></p><p><strong>Investment</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>£395m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>£376m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>£383m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>£389m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>£396m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>£403m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 27/11/2014 14:07:50 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

156967

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Flood Control
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many of the 890 flood defences damaged as result of the winter floods in 2013-14 have been repaired to date.
	tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
	tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
	uin	215512
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>Following the tidal surge on 5 December 2013 and the winter storms of 2013/14, a total of 890 flood recovery projects were identified across England. A total of 844 projects involved the repair of flood defence assets, while the remaining 46 projects involved surveys, studies or actions relating to incident response.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As of 14 November 2014, permanent repairs have been completed for 814 of the 844 defence projects and there were 30 defence repair projects with temporary repairs. All the defences with temporary repairs also have contingency measures in place, which restore the standard of protection to pre-winter 2013/14 levels.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Going in to this winter, every community that was affected by the storms and floods of last winter will have the same or better standard of protection compared to the levels of defence they had before last winter.</p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 25/11/2014 16:07:47 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

58151

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Flood Control
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent representations he has received on the funding formula for flood defence; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
	tabling member printed	Miss Anne McIntosh
	uin	198854
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Defra regularly receives representation from those seeking Government funding for flood and coastal risk management schemes to be more focussed on delivering a particular type of outcome such as improved protection for homes, agricultural areas or infrastructure at risk of flooding. These representations are not in a consistent direction.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A recent external evaluation found that, on the whole, the current partnership funding approach is progressing well in meeting its policy objectives and that the funding formula should not be changed at present.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Our focus is on working with Risk Management Authorities and local communities to put together a six-year investment programme on the basis of the current funding formula, for announcement this autumn. The programme will reduce flood risk for 300,000 households by March 2021.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 09/06/2014 13:29:09 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

61084

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Flood Control
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of water infrastructure investment plans in tackling the problem of flooding; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Dover
	tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
	uin	904181
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Ofwat is assessing water infrastructure investment plans for 2015-2020 under the 2014 water price review. All water and sewerage companies have a duty derived from recent legislation to place greater emphasis on flood risk planning.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The Water Industry Act 1991 has also been amended to make clear that sewerage undertakers can construct and use Sustainable Drainage Systems to fulfil their statutory duty to effectually drain an area where it is the most economical solution.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 12/06/2014 14:13:41 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

63808

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Flood Control
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are planning to take in order to prevent flooding in the future, in the light of recent experience.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	uin	HL592
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>We will be spending more than £3.2 billion over thecourse of this parliament on flood and erosion risk management (between 2010/11 to 2014/15). Going forward, we have also made an unprecedented long-term 6-year commitment to record levels of capital investment in improving defences right up to 2021. By the end of the decade, we will have provided a better level of protection to at least 465,000 households.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In response to the exceptional events of the winter, Defra has made an extra £270 million available to repair, restore and maintain critical defences. This new funding will help the Environment Agency ensure that the most important defences are returned to, and maintained at, target condition as soon as possible.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are also working to enable action by landowners, communities and others to manage local flood risk, including through the River Maintenance Pilot scheme.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord De Mauley question first answered 01/07/2014 16:37:31 answering member 2202 label Biography information for Lord De Mauley
	tabling member	4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth