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	date	21/11/2017
	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: Cumbria
	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 the Government has invested in Cumbria to reduce the risk of flooding downstream of reservoirs in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Copeland
	tabling member printed	Trudy Harrison
	uin	114930
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>The Environment Agency has strategic oversight of all sources of flooding and coastal erosion, including reservoir flooding. The Environment Agency also has a regulatory role in managing flood risk with reservoirs and works to make sure reservoir owners effectively manage their own flood risk.</p><p> </p><p>Where appropriate, reducing the risk of flooding downstream from reservoirs is integrated within flood risk management schemes. The Environment Agency does not collect separate financial information for measures to reduce this specific flood risk.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to reducing flood risk and has made the following capital investment to flood and coastal erosion risk management in Cumbria in each of the last five years:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>£ 4.3 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£ 2.4 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>£ 2.1 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>£ 3.0 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>£ 14.3 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 28/11/2017 15:30:30 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison

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	registered interest
	date	24/11/2016
	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: Cumbria
	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 has been spent from the public purse on flood (a) defence and (b) prevention schemes in Cumbria in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Workington
	tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
	uin	54825
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2016 answer text <p>The table below summarises Government capital spend on flood and coastal risk management schemes in Cumbria for each year between April 2007 and March 2016. These investments included funding for flood alleviation schemes in Carlisle, completed in 2010 at a cost of £22.5 million, and Penrith, costing £5.6 million and completed in 2011. Flood alleviation schemes in Keswick and Cockermouth were also completed in 2012 and 2013 at a cost of £6 million and £4.4 million respectively.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Government capital investment for Cumbria (in £m)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007/08</p></td><td><p>8.314</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008/09</p></td><td><p>11.354</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>12.483</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>9.507</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>6.328</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>4.291</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2.394</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2.086</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2.502</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Environment Agency does not retain historic spend data prior to 2007 which can be split by specific geographic regions consistently. This is due to different financial accounting systems being in place prior to 2007</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 29/11/2016 12:17:02 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock