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date	17/01/2024
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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Fifty-first Report of the Committee of Public Accounts of Session 2022-23 on Tackling Defra’s ageing digital services, HC 737, published on 10 May 2023, how much of the £871 million allocated in the 2021 Spending Review to be spent by his Department on digital investment over three years has been spent.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Samantha Dixon
uin	10353
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2024 answer text <p>At least £381.5 million of the £871 million allocated in the 2021 Spending Review to be spent by Defra on digital investment has been spent as of 31 December 2023.</p><p>Approximately £134 million of the £871 million was allocated to Arm’s Length Bodies (ALBs) for their own IT expenditure and so is monitored through individual ALB finance processes rather than central Defra finance.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 06/02/2024 10:20:34 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4976 label Biography information for Samantha Dixon

1676173

registered interest
date	30/11/2023
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 assessment he has made of the adequacy of flood defences.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Samantha Dixon
uin	900517
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2023 answer text <p>The Government is working closely with the Environment Agency and relevant authorities to ensure flood defences impacted by recent flooding are repaired as quickly as possible; around 14,000 asset inspections have been conducted following the recent storms with action taken wherever asset performance was compromised.</p><p> </p><p>This year and last, £200 million is being invested in maintaining flood risk assets, with the aim of achieving our current target of between 94-95% in target condition.</p><p> </p><p>In the City of Chester, in the current Flood and Coastal Risk Management capital programme, £20,000 of Flood Defence Grant-in-Aid funding has been allocated for projects in the constituency, which will better protect properties from flooding. There is also a proposed project in the Stretford and Urmston constituency (Longford Brook Flood Alleviation Scheme).</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore grouped question UIN 900516 question first answered 07/12/2023 15:59:05 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	4976 label Biography information for Samantha Dixon

1665811

registered interest
date	18/10/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Inflation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place a copy of his Department’s internal projection of the CPI inflation figure for October 2023 in the House of Commons Library.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Samantha Dixon
uin	203424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>The independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) is the Government’s official forecaster.</p><p> </p><p>The OBR published its most recent <a href="https://obr.uk/efo/economic-and-fiscal-outlook-march-2023/" target="_blank">economic and fiscal forecasts in March 2023</a> and will publish an updated projection alongside the Autumn Statement on 22<sup>nd</sup> November.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith question first answered 26/10/2023 10:10:02 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
tabling member	4976 label Biography information for Samantha Dixon