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652316

registered interest
date	05/12/2016
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether temporary flood barriers, mobile water pumps and incident command vehicles were deployed during Storm Angus.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	56064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2016 answer text <p>Storm Angus brought widespread heavy rainfall to many parts of the country, particularly across the South West and North East. During the storm the Environment Agency deployed 94m of temporary flood barriers and 2 small mobile water pumps. No incident command vehicles were deployed.</p><p> </p><p>1,095 staff were deployed to respond to the flooding and support affected communities. 139 Flood Warnings and 1 Severe Flood Warning were also issued.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 08/12/2016 15:35:52 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

652322

registered interest
date	05/12/2016
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
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 funding has been allocated to (a) St Helens, (b) Merseyside and (c) the UK for flood prevention and remediation in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	56073
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2016 answer text <p>The Government has invested £2.5 billion over six years on improving flood defences to better protect over 300,000 homes. This is a real terms increase in capital investment – up from £1.7 billion in the last Parliament and £1.5 billion between 2005 and 2010.</p><p> </p><p>The table below summarises the total capital investment on flood and coastal risk management for St Helens, Merseyside and England for each year since 2010.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Total capital investment on flood and coastal risk management (£k) </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>St Helens (Metropolitan Borough) </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Merseyside</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>England</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>318</p></td><td><p>4,501</p></td><td><p>363,985</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>188</p></td><td><p>1,329</p></td><td><p>321,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>377</p></td><td><p>466</p></td><td><p>323,219</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>78</p></td><td><p>380,217</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>206</p></td><td><p>507,884</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>412,952</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 08/12/2016 17:01:19 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

652323

registered interest
date	05/12/2016
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
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 funding for flood prevention her Department has allocated to each local authority in 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	56074
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2016 answer text <p>The Department provides funding for flood risk management projects through Grant in Aid to Risk Management Authorities, which include the Environment Agency, local authorities and internal drainage boards. Please see the attached table which shows Grant in Aid funding allocated to Risk Management Authorities in 2016/17. This is a snapshot for the current year and reflects the bids made by authorities for specific projects.</p><p> </p><p>In addition funding for local authorities’ ongoing flood prevention responsibilities is provided through the Local Government Settlement. Local authorities have freedom to determine their own priorities and so there is no specific flood allocation by authority.</p><p> </p><p>Funding for two ongoing flood responsibilities, the Lead Local Flood Authority role and local authorities’ role as statutory consultee on surface water for major developments, was previously provided through Defra and DCLG grants but as of 2016/17 has been fully rolled into the settlement. The visible lines show a notional amount for each authority for these two purposes. The lines indicate the priority central government gives to these two services but do not affect authorities’ freedom to set their own priorities locally.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 08/12/2016 15:00:59 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey attachment 1 file name Grant in Aid funding allocated to Risk Management Authorities.pdf title Grant in Aid funding allocated to Risk Management
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

649460

registered interest
date	01/12/2016
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which flood defence and resilience projects are currently in (a) construction, (b) development and (c) pipeline phase.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	55843
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>The £2.5bn capital investment covers the period 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2021. A comprehensive list of projects is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/search?q=Programme+of+flood+and+coastal+erosion+risk+management+schemes" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/search?q=Programme+of+flood+and+coastal+erosion+risk+management+schemes</a>. The list indicates whether the scheme is in the construction, development or pipeline phase. This programme is live and will continue to be updated.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 06/12/2016 10:42:36 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

648740

registered interest
date	30/11/2016
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to her oral contribution of 24 November 2016, Official Report, column 1004 if she will publish a list of projects including their locations that will be supported by the £15 million investment.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	55751
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>Natural flood management solutions are an important part of our approach to reducing flood risk. The recently announced £15m investment specifically for natural flood management schemes across England presents an important opportunity to further develop the evidence base around working with natural processes to reduce flood risk. We are, therefore, thinking carefully about where these schemes are based, and so have not yet announced specific locations that will be supported by the fund.</p><p> </p><p>The Environment Agency will be administering the £15m investment, and have already been working with Natural England, Forestry Commission and local partners to identify project proposals. Following the announcement of the fund they can now begin to work with partners to fully scope these opportunities, which will then need to be robustly assessed against a set of agreed criteria. Further details of the process for confirming projects and their locations will be announced in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 06/12/2016 11:46:24 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

647704

registered interest
date	29/11/2016
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
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 her Department has made of the implications for her policies on flooding and land use of the Green Alliance Policy Insight of November 2016, entitled Smarter flood risk management in England.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	55376
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2016 answer text <p>The Government notes the Green Alliance report’s focus on flood prevention, including the use of natural measures and the whole catchment approach.</p><p> </p><p>A combination of measures are needed to manage flood risk, including upstream activities to store or slow flood waters. The current Countryside Stewardship Scheme includes land management measures that help to prevent flooding. Our exit from the EU provides an opportunity to consider how best future agriculture and environmental policy can contribute to flood risk management. The Government recently announced £15m specifically for natural flood management schemes across England. This builds on demonstration projects at Pickering in North Yorkshire, Holnicote in Somerset and Upper Derwent, Derbyshire.</p><p> </p><p>They demonstrated that natural measures can be effective in helping to manage flood risk at a catchment scale, slowing the flow of water and reducing local impacts when carefully incorporated into a wider suite of catchment measures, but were unlikely to offer an alternative to conventional defences in areas of greatest risk.</p><p> </p><p>However, we refute the assertion that twice as much is spent on dealing with the after-effects of a flood than is spent on hard flood defences. In 2014/15, the year the report is referring to with respect to hard defences, of the £802.6m spent on flood risk management, £145m was for flood response and repair costs and £657.6m for routine flood risk management measures.</p><p> </p><p>Moreover, in our current 6-year capital programme, we are investing £2.5 billion over six years on flood defences (up until 2021). This is a real terms increase in capital investment. We are exceeding our manifesto commitment by building 1,500 new flood defence schemes that will better protect 300,000 more homes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 05/12/2016 11:38:29 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

647950

registered interest
date	29/11/2016
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
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to attract more private funding into the construction of flood defences; and whether this will include providing a return to investors on their investment in such projects and allowing corporate investors more control over the investments made.
tabling member printed	Baroness McIntosh of Pickering
uin	HL3647
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2016 answer text <p>Government changed its funding approach in 2011 to provide space for and encourage private sector and other contributions to Government supported flood and coastal erosion risk management schemes. Private sector contributors benefit from the reduction in flood risk which their investment buys. The return on these investments vary from scheme to scheme depending on the level of protection achieved by the project but private sector contributors can choose how much they invest.</p><p> </p><p>Legislation was introduced in the Finance Bill 2015 to enable companies and unincorporated businesses to receive a tax relief on their contributions to partnership funding for flood and coastal erosion risk management schemes. This is intended to encourage private sector contributions to projects across the country through partnership funding, allowing more schemes to go ahead.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 13/12/2016 14:40:28 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

647951

registered interest
date	29/11/2016
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
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of Design, Build, Finance and Operate (DBFO) as a viable approach to the funding of flood defence projects; and what assessment they have made of the extent to which this approach would ensure an appropriate sharing of costs and risks between the contractor and the DBFO client.
tabling member printed	Baroness McIntosh of Pickering
uin	HL3648
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2016 answer text <p>Most flood defence improvement schemes managed by the Environment Agency and other risk management authorities are delivered through private sector suppliers. When considering how best to procure the improvement and maintenance of defences the Environment Agency and other risk management authorities consider a wide range of options including design, build and operate. Private financing may form part of this where the scheme is not fully funded by government.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 13/12/2016 14:38:52 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

647952

registered interest
date	29/11/2016
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
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the prioritisation of projects designed to address drainage, water level and flood risks; and what is their estimate of the costs of funding a programme to address these risks.
tabling member printed	Baroness McIntosh of Pickering
uin	HL3649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2016 answer text <p>Flood defence projects are prioritised based on the economic benefits they could achieve in terms of the flood damages they would avoid and the number of homes that would be better protected from flooding or coastal erosion.</p><p> </p><p>The Environment Agency's Long Term Investment Scenarios report represents the best currently available projections of potential long term costs to manage flood and coastal risk under a range of scenarios reflecting future uncertainties.</p><p> </p><p>The latest report confirms that current Government investment plans to 2020, together with forecast local contributions, are in line with the level the Environment Agency’s assessment indicates is necessary to reduce overall flood risk.</p><p> </p><p>The report it available on the GOV.UK website.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 13/12/2016 14:38:23 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

647953

registered interest
date	29/11/2016
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
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consideration they have given to planning public investments for flood protection over a 25 year timeframe in order to align public investment planning more closely with corporate investment planning and to attract more private sector partnership funding.
tabling member printed	Baroness McIntosh of Pickering
uin	HL3650
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2016 answer text <p>The Environment Agency's Long Term Investment Scenarios report models investment options 50 years into the future. This analysis is used by Government when considering the case for future investment in flood risk management, for example at spending reviews.</p><p> </p><p>At the last spending review we confirmed a record level, six-year capital commitment up to 2021. This has allowed the Environment Agency and other risk management authorities to plan and leverage further contributions, including funding from the private sector.</p><p> </p><p>Building on the findings of the National Flood Resilience Review, Defra will now work with the Environment Agency, HM Treasury and the National Infrastructure Commission to consider long term investment needs and funding options after 2021.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 13/12/2016 14:37:46 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering