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
|