Coastal Erosion: Finance
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Environment Agency plans to update the Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Grant in Aid funding calculator to better account for the specific needs of coastal communities and the full economic, social and environmental value of coastal erosion risk management projects.
Answered by Emma Hardy
In October 2025 we reformed our flood and coastal erosion risk management funding policy, making it quicker and easier to deliver the right flood defences in the right places by simplifying our funding rules.
The current methods for assessing funding eligibility include quantifying a large range of economic benefits from investment including the avoidance of direct damage to residential, commercial and public property, infrastructure damage, mental health costs, environmental and heritage damages, and lost tourism and recreation.
We are committed to supporting coastal communities and ensuring that coastal risk management is fit for the challenges we face now and in the future. To support this, between April 2024 and March 2026, around £516 million was allocated by government into protection from sea flooding, tidal flooding and coastal erosion.
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