Spending Review 2004 Target: Letter to Environment Agency
31 March 2005
| To: | David King, Director of Water Management, Environment Agency |
Dear David
New Target for Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management for the Spending Review 2004 Period
As you will know, Defra's existing Service Delivery Agreement (SDA) targets for managing the risk of flooding and coastal erosion cover the period of the 2002 Spending Review. I am pleased to tell you that our Ministers have now agreed a new target for the period covered by the 2004 Spending Review (ie 2005-08), which is that:
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Defra will manage flood and coastal erosion risk so as to contribute to sustainable development, including minimising loss of life and improving the standard of protection for at least 100,000 households using efficiency savings to maintain outputs at equivalent levels to 2005-6. |
You will note that this Target is complementary to the aim announced last Thursday in the Government's first response to Making Space for Water, which is:
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To manage the risks from flooding and coastal erosion by employing an integrated portfolio of approaches which reflect both national and local priorities, so as:
To secure efficient and reliable funding mechanisms that deliver the levels of investment required to achieve the vision of this strategy. |
The new SR04 target comes into effect on 1 April 2005. It will be
underpinned by a Technical Note
and a detailed Delivery Plan
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We intend to roll forward the joint Defra/EA/LGA Programme Board which we
established for the SDA Targets and we will intend to finalise the Technical
Note and Business Plan in that Forum.
Yours sincerely
[signed]
David Wright
Flood Management Division
[Similar letters were sent to the Local Government Association (LGA) and Association of Drainage Authorities.]
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