General election: Does flood defence spending unfairly favour the South East?

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CampaignCheck: Does flood defence spending unfairly favour the South East?

Darker areas show the constituencies where the most money is planned to be spent on flood defences SOURCE: CARBON BRIEF

For instance, planned spending in the South East comes out at over £180 per person, compared with £32.80 in the North East. That spending is due to be spread out over the next eight decades while all the other regional spending only covers the next two years, until 2021. When you consider planned flood spending up until 2021, the region with the most per-head planned spending is actually Yorkshire and the Humber.So Mr Corbyn isn't right that most spending has gone on London and the South East.The amount of spending on flood defences in the UK has not kept track with the pre-austerity trend.

 

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It doesn’t matter where you put flood defences, the waters always going to end up outside somebody’s door

It favours the wealthy who have built on the flood plains

Of course were tough up north not like you snowflakes.😁👍

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