{"id":9570,"date":"2015-02-13T17:53:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T17:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=9570"},"modified":"2015-02-13T17:53:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T17:53:30","slug":"cross-party-committee-challenges-defra-on-flood-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9570","title":{"rendered":"Cross Party committee challenges DEFRA on flood funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee has queried the Government plans to attract \u00a3600 million from\u00a0external funders to bolster flood defences, stating DEFRA needs to demonstrate exactly how it will achieve this level of investment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee writes:<br \/>\n<\/span>Committee Chair, Anne McIntosh MP commented: \u2018The Government has committed \u00a32.3 billion in capital funding for six years\u2019 investment aimed at protecting 300,000 properties, but that plan relies on external contributions of \u00a3600 million.\u00a0 We support the principle that the private sector should help to fund new flood defence schemes, but we have repeatedly expressed concern about the relatively small amounts of private sector funding secured to date under the Partnership Funding approach, with only \u00a340 million of the \u00a3148 million secured up to 2014-15 coming from sources beyond local government.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear how the \u00a3600 million target can be met, and we want Defra to demonstrate how it intends to obtain that money and to explain the impact on its investment programme if the money does not come forward.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Committee also repeats its call on Government to move to a total expenditure classification for flood risk management and flags that revenue funding would benefit from a six-year funding commitment alongside capital. The Committee believes revenue and capital spending must be balanced to ensure both receive the same priority.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/business\/committees\/committees-a-z\/commons-select\/environment-food-and-rural-affairs-committee\/news\/report-defra-performance-in-01314\/\" target=\"_blank\">View the Commons Select Committee news release<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?s=flooding\" target=\"_blank\">IHBC newsblogs on funding<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?s=coast\" target=\"_blank\">IHBC newsblogs on coastal areas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee has queried the Government plans to attract \u00a3600 million from\u00a0external funders to bolster flood defences, stating DEFRA needs to demonstrate exactly how it will achieve this level of investment. The Environment, Food and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9570\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9571,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9570\/revisions\/9571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}