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169826

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date	11/12/2014
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 steps the Government is taking to address river and flood defence asset maintenance in response to the report published by the National Audit Office, entitled Strategic Flood Risk Management, HC780, last month.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Miss Anne McIntosh
uin	218387
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>Maintaining flood defence assets depends on a combination of capital and revenue funding. This Government is spending £3.2 billion on flood management and defences in this Parliament, which is a real terms increase and half a billion pounds more than in the previous five years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have committed a record level £2.3 billion capital funding right up until 2021. This is a real terms average increase in capital investment compared with the current spending review period and the long-term commitments will allow us to get better value for money. We have also provided an extra £70 million of revenue funding for the Environment Agency to maintain its defences: £35 million this year and £35 million next year, on top of the £5 million we had already committed in 2015/16 before the winter storms.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The National Audit Office report ‘Strategic Flood Risk Management’ was considered by the Public Accounts Committee on 24 November. The Government will respond to the Committee’s recommendations in early 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 17/12/2014 10:48:08 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

169827

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
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 steps the Government is taking to facilitate communities wishing to take over the maintenance and running of flood defence systems in areas where the Environment Agency is withdrawing; and if she will permit the funding of a local authority special levy for new internal drainage boards (IDBs) on the same basis on which her Department funds those authorities within the boundaries of existing IDBs.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Miss Anne McIntosh
uin	218388
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>It is important that the Environment Agency is able to focus its efforts and resources in those areas where the risk of flooding to communities, businesses and property are greatest.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the areas where the Evironment Agency is withdrawing from land drainage activities, the Agency is committed to working closely with landowners, farmers, householders and businesses to help them consider the options available to them for taking over the maintenance activities.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We feel that, in these areas, responsibility for local watercourse management sits more appropriately with expert local bodies, including local authorities and IDBs as well as riparian owners, since these bodies are best placed to take decisions on local priorities in discussion with their communities.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are keen to enable these bodies, and individuals, to act effectively in partnerships at a local level to achieve the outcomes that communities want to see. We are engaged in a range of actions to make it easier for farmers and landowners who wish to undertake their own de-silting and channel maintenance activities. We also very much welcome the establishment of IDBs where these are proposed and supported by the local community.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We recognise the challenges associated with raising funds for flood risk locally, including for the establishment of new IDBs, and are continuing to explore options in this area together with the Department for Communities and Local Government</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 17/12/2014 17:08:01 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

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