Claim: Government spending on flood defences until 2021 has heavily favoured London and the South East.
Fact-check: We don't know if there's a north/south divide in flood defence spending because the data was taken offline - Full Fact
Verdict: there isn't enough data available to prove this, and previous estimates  don't clearly show this divide. figures from the environment agency that could have helped shed light seem to have been taken offline.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Joseph O'Leary
Date published: 2019-11-15T00:00:00