(Update – September 2016)
Following severe flooding last winter, the Government made over £200 million available to help communities and businesses recover and a further £130 million to be spent on repairing damaged transport infrastructure.
This has resulted in a commitment to spend an extra £12.5 million for new temporary defences, such as barriers and high volume pumps, at seven strategic locations around the country so that by this winter, the Environment Agency will have four times more temporary barriers than last year. Utility companies have committed to increasing the resilience of their infrastructure, and the Met Office will link its forecasting of extreme rainfall with Environment Agency modelling, so that flood risk can be better assessed.