Flood Control

Miss McIntosh
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what flood defences have been built in each of the last 10 years; and what the (a) final construction costs and (b) original contract prices were in each case.

Mr. Woolas
The Environment Agency forecast to have completed over 240 projects in the five years to 1 April 2008.

Information on final construction costs and original contract prices for each case cannot be provided without incurring disproportionate cost.