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Flood Control: Expenditure

Volume 491: debated on Monday 20 April 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much his Department spent on the design and management of each flooding and coastal protection project currently under way in areas at risk from (a) fluvial and coastal flooding and (b) coastal erosion. (265755)

The Environment Agency completed 57 nationally managed projects on fluvial and coastal flooding between 1 April 2008 and 28 February 2009 of which 34 were funded or part-funded by DEFRA. The tables are based on information provided by the Environment Agency’s capital works database. These show that the average costs spent on the appraisal of projects by the Environment Agency’s National Capital Programme Management Service (NCPMS) on feasibility and approvals was 18 per cent. The remaining 82 per cent. was spent on the construction and post construction activities of the project.

The Environment Agency does not hold records centrally on the cost of design and management for most of its schemes below £250,000, nor for pre-feasibility costs for most schemes and for local authority coastal erosion projects.

Table 1: Summary of appraisal/delivery split for Environment Agency projects above £250,000 that have completed construction between 1 April 2008 to 28 February 2009

£000

Funding

Type of project

Appraisal

Delivery

Grand total

Flood Defence Grant in Aid (FDGIA)

Coastal

11,374.6

22,314.7

33,689.3

Fluvial

6,732.4

34,510

41,242.4

Other

1,878.1

10,283

12,161.1

Tidal

5,623.6

33,722.7

39,346.3

FDGIA total

25,608.7

100,830.4

126,439.1

FDGIA/Income

Coastal

228.7

12,153.9

12,382.6

Fluvial

3,506.1

20,361

23,867.1

Other

1,053.3

208.1

1,261.4

Tidal

643.5

3,008.7

3,652.2

FDGIA/Income total

5,431.6

35,731.7

41,163.3

Grand total

31,040.3

136,562.1

167,602.4

Table 2: Appraisal/delivery split for projects that have completed construction between 1 April 2008 to 28 February 2009 broken down by project

£000

Funding

Type of project

Project title

Appraisal

Delivery

Grand total

FDGIA

Coastal

East Suttons to Denge Interim Beach Man’ment 07/08

88.1

666.8

754.9

High Knocke to Dymchurch Redoubt Sea Defences

10,973

20,365.9

31,338.9

Stanah Sea Defences

313.5

1,282

1,595.5

Coastal total

11,374.6

22,314.7

33,689.3

Fluvial

Chatsworth Gauging Station

59.2

90.9

150.1

Chelt Gap Culvert

25.9

279

304.9

Chelt Glynbridge Bank Slips

24.8

176

200.8

Cockshaw Burn @ Hexham

1,808.5

10,481.8

12,290.3

Currymoor/Haymoor Project (FC)

295.2

477.4

772.6

Exwick Flood Scheme Improvements

69

224.7

293.7

Flexbury FDS

342.5

3,200.6

3,543.1

Middle Level Barrier Banks Urgent Works

123.2

1,561.5

1,684.7

Newbridge Sluice

137.5

322.2

459.7

River Eden/Petteril Flood Defences, Carlisle

1,420

11,875.9

13,295.9

Silk Stream FAS

2,363.5

5,765

8,128.5

Wakefield, West Riding Quarry Spillway E. Works

63.1

55

118.1

Fluvial total

6,732.4

34,510

41,242.4

Other

Cut Off Channel Bridges

1,647.8

8,916.6

10,564.4

Stainforth Emergency Works

51.6

739.6

791.2

Upper Parrett Bridge Package

178.7

626.8

805.5

Other total

1,878.1

10,283

12,161.1

Tidal

Associated Gates Corrosion Protection Systems

283.5

495.1

778.6

Denver Little Eyes Refurbishment, Stage 1

117.9

986.7

1,104.6

Lower Lancaster FAS Phases 1 and 2

984.5

9896

10,880.5

Lymington River Flood Alleviation Scheme

1,103.7

3,190

4,293.7

Medway Lock Inspections 07/08

12.6

12.6

Parrett Banks—Thatchers Arms

130.6

387.8

518.4

Rainham Main Sluice Frontage, E022_02 & 03

321.9

396.3

718.2

Selby Defences inc. Barlby

2,188.6

15,943.2

18,131.8

Thames Barrier Corrosion Protection System

480.3

2,427.6

2,907.9

Tidal total

5,623.6

33,722.7

39,346.3

FDGIA total

25,608.7

100,830.4

126,439.1

FDGIA/Income

Coastal

Southern Felixstowe Coastal Defences

228.7

12153.9

12382.6

Coastal total

228.7

12,153.9

12,382.6

Fluvial

Boscastle—Valency Flood Defence System

917

5,618.8

6,535.6

Hereford FAS

1,011.4

6,370.1

7,381.5

St. Ives—Stennack Stream

1,577.7

8,372.3

9,950

Fluvial total

3,506.1

2,0361

23,867.1

Other

Frampton Habitat Creation Works

1,053.3

208.1

1,261.4

Other total

1,053.3

208.1

1,261.4

Tidal

Ipswich Flood Defence Management Scheme: Wet Dock Gates Replacement

262.4

1,598.4

1,860.8

Queenhithe Wharf Frontage N230, Repair & Strength

381.1

1,410.3

1,791.4

Tidal total

643.5

3,008.7

3,652.2

FDGSA/income total

5,431.6

35,731.7

41,163.3

Grand total

31,040.3

136,562.1

167,602.4