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Floods: Gloucestershire

Volume 503: debated on Wednesday 6 January 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) how much the Government has spent in total across Government Departments to support recovery in (a) Gloucester City and (b) Gloucestershire since the 2007 floods; (308138)

(2) what resources his Department has made available to Gloucester City to support flood recovery since the 2007 floods;

(3) what resources his Department has made available to Gloucestershire to support flood recovery since the 2007 floods;

(4) what resources his Department has co-ordinated across Government to support flood recovery in Gloucestershire since the 2007 floods.

Following the flooding of summer 2007, the Government made available a comprehensive package of support for those communities most badly affected. This included Flood Recovery Grant, funding from the Bellwin Scheme, the Restoration Fund and funding for council tax relief, all of which were administered by Communities and Local Government (CLG). The Department for Children Schools and Families (DCSF) provided funding for schools and children's services and the Department of Transport (DFT) provided funding for repairs to highways and transport infrastructure. Details of the support given to local authorities within Gloucestershire are shown in the following table.

The total package of support to all local authorities in Gloucestershire was £29,137,517.

Local authority

Support

Amount(£)

Cheltenham borough council

Flood Recovery Grant (CLG)

646,500

Bellwin Scheme (CLG)

48,361

Restoration Fund (CLG)

1,774,306

Council Tax Funding (CLG)

2,611

Sum of total funding

2,471,778

Cotswold district council

Flood Recovery Grant (CLG)

663,500

Bellwin Scheme (CLG)

87,432

Restoration Fund (CLG)

330,316

Council Tax Funding (CLG)

21,722

Sum of total funding

1,102,970

Forest of Dean district council

Flood Recovery Grant (CLG)

23,000

Restoration Fund (CLG)

13,324

Council Tax Funding (CLG)

2,728

Sum of total funding

39,052

Gloucester city council

Flood Recovery Grant (CLG)

696,500

Bellwin Scheme (GLG)

189,361

Restoration Fund (CLG)

191,016

Council Tax Funding (CLG)

10,209

Sum of total funding

1,087,086

Gloucestershire police authority

Bellwin Scheme (CLG)

955,420

Restoration Fund (CLG)

60,639

Sum of total funding

1,016,059

Stroud district council

Flood Recovery Grant (CLG)

60,000

Bellwin Scheme (CLG)

8,673

Sum of total funding

68,673

Tewkesbury borough council

Flood Recovery Grant (CLG)

673,500

Bellwin Scheme (CLG)

351,073

Restoration Fund (CLG)

216,919

Council Tax Funding (CLG)

233,000

Sum of total funding

1,474,492

Gloucestershire county council

Funding from DCSF

1,007,900

Funding from DFT

16,548,000

Bellwin Scheme (CLG)

2,807,644

Restoration Fund (CLG)

1,513,863

Sum of total funding

21,877,407