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Floods: Business

Answer

The Environment Agency (EA) records properties (homes and businesses) affected by large flood events, through information provided during incidents, or through working with communities recovering from flooding. The EA does not distinguish between homes and businesses for large flood events. The table below provides the EA estimates for the number of properties flooded, but not necessarily damaged, during significant flood events since 2010.

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities or Lead Local Flood Authorities may hold more detailed information for smaller scale events, and events where surface water was the major cause of flooding. Where Lead Local Flood Authorities hold more information, they publish this through Section 19 reports.

Between April 2015 and March 2021, the Government invested £2.6 billion in its first 6-year flood and coastal defence programme for England. This programme exceeded its target of better protecting 300,000 homes. The Government announced in 2020 that the amount invested in the 2021-2027 investment programme would be doubled in England to £5.2 billion, providing around 2,000 flood defences to better protect communities across England. Every English region is forecast to receive more investment in flood and coastal defences in this programme compared to the previous 2015 to 2021 investment programme.

Year	Flood event	Properties flooded	Properties protected
2010	Cornwall (Nov)	250	Data not available
2012	Nationwide (Mar -Dec)	7,900	200,000
2013/14	Nationwide / East Coast (Dec -May)	11,000	1.4 million
2015/16	North of England (Dec - Jan) Storms Desmond, Eva and Frank	17,000	23,400
2018	South East/ Midlands - Thunderstorms (May)	600 (+300 unconfirmed)	Data not available
2019	East / Midlands/ South East (June)	383	Data not available
2019/20 (winter)	Nationwide (Nov-Feb)	4,500	130,000
2019	Yorkshire & N England (7-22 Nov)	1,100	22,275
2019	Cornwall and South (19-23 Dec)	100	22,658
2020	Storm Ciara (9-14 Feb)	1,346	23,415
2020	Storm Dennis (16-23 Feb)	1,569	25,109
2020	Late Feb (24-29)	516	35,740
2020	Storm Bella (14-17 Dec) and Heavy rain (17- 31 Dec) Buckingham, Newport Pagnell, Northampton, Rugby	400	9,000
2021	Storm Christoph (18-20 Jan) North Wales and northern England	675	49,000
2022	Storm Dudley, Eunice, Franklin (15-22 Feb)	372	35,000

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

89882

Session

2022-23

Grouped for answer

Yes

Subjects

Business Buildings Damage Floods

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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