Select Committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Written Evidence


Supplementary memorandum submitted by the Environment Agency

DEFRA'S BUDGET CUTS

  The table below shows actual reductions incorporated within the EA's budget allocations for 2007-08 (notified by the Secretary of State on 20.12.06), compared with anticipated cuts at the time we submitted our written evidence to the EFRA Committee in November:


Potential Reductions
Notified to EFRA
Committee
in November 2006
Actual Reductions
advised on
20.12.06
£ million
(Note 1)
£ million
(Note 1)

Flood Risk Management
25.7
(25.7)
12.0
(12.0)
EP, Recreation, Conservation & Navigation
11.4
(19.6)
3.8
(12.0)
Fisheries
0.6
(1.0)
0
(0.4)
Total
37.7
(46.3)
15.8
(24.4)

  Note 1

  The figures in parenthesis include the reductions for 2007-08 notified by Bill Stow on 13.4.06.

  The above can be used to update the amounts presented in the response to the Committee's question 11(£ million):


Response to Q11
Actual Reduction

FRM
25.7
12.0
EPRCN
19.6
12.0
Fisheries
1.0
0.4
Total
46.3
24.4


  It also updates the figures presented in section 2 of the EA supplementary memo on EFRA Budget Cuts (dated 29.11.06):


Memo dated 29.11.06
Actual Position
Notified
Potential
Notified
Notified
13.4.06
10%
Total
13.4.06
20.12.06
Total

FRM
0
25.7
25.7
0
12.0
12.0
EPRCN
8.2
11.4
19.6
8.2
3.8
12.0
Fisheries
0.4
0.6
1.0
0.4
0
0.4
Total
8.6
37.7
46.3
8.6
15.8
24.4


  It follows that the impacts outlined in response to Q12 will be less severe than feared. We are currently undertaking our corporate and business planning process for 2007-08. It is too early to confirm the exact impacts. We will endeavour to minimise the damage, through our "more for the environment, better, faster and for less" programme.

  The analysis of our 2007-08 budget allocations notified by Defra is as follows (£ million):


DEL
Resource
DEL
Capital
Total

FRM
246.7
189.0
435.7
EPRCN
107.4
17.4
124.8
Fisheries
5.9
0
5.9
Total
360.0
206.4
566.4


Environment Agency
January 2007



 
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