The operating grant-in-aid that Defra provides to the Environment Agency (EA) for 2007-08 was announced in December 2006 and totals £570.884 million.
Overall departmental funding for the financial years 2008-09 to 2010-11, of which grant-in-aid to the EA forms a part, is being considered in the Government’s 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR). The outcome of the CSR will be announced in the autumn. We will continue to work with the EA in preparation for this.