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<p>The Government has prioritised flooding and coastal erosion risk management over
the course of this Parliament, and announced at Spending Round 2013 that £2.3 billion
will be invested in flood and coastal erosion defences in an unprecedented 6-year
programme.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Coastal erosion is an area of devolved responsibility,
and as such it is for the devolved administrations to allocate funds between services
according to their own priorities. The Barnett Formula was applied to departmental
settlements in the normal way at the Spending Round.</p><p> </p>
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