Summary
In this Report,
‘Environment
Agency: Building and Maintaining River and Coastal Flood Defences in England’
(HC 175), the Committee of Public Accounts examines how well the Agency
carries out its role to protect people and properties from the risk of flooding
and whether it adequately monitors and maintains the standards of existing
flood defence systems.
Following on from a June 2007 report from
the National Audit Office,
'Building
and Maintaining River and Coastal Flood Defences in England’ (HC 528), the
Committee here concludes that the Agency was unable to show its maintenance
teams were deployed efficiently or that they focused their resources on high
risk flood defence systems.
The Committee recommends that the Environment
Agency make more effective use of their existing funding by:
- Better
prioritisation, aided by enhanced management information systems
- Better
targeting of resources based on flood risk in different parts of the
country
- Reducing the programme and project development costs of
constructing defences.
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