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Flood and coastal erosion risk management: capital investment programme headline benefits

This report sets out some of the key headlines and achievements of the 2015 to 2021 capital investment programme.

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Between 2015 and 2021 government invested £2.6 billion into a flood and coastal defence programme for England. Capital investment into flood and coastal erosion risk management is crucial to achieve government’s long-term ambition to create a nation more resilient to future flood and coastal erosion risk.

This report sets out:

  • some of the key headlines and achievements of the 2015 to 2021 capital investment programme
  • how the outcomes of the investment programme (which started in 2015) will inform delivery of the new investment programme that started in 2021
Published 11 April 2022