Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when he plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for West Lancashire of 6 November 2020 on the strategic flood risk assessment for West Lancashire, reference GD/ZA52459.

We have received the letter and are collating any relevant documents to send in reply. As noted in the original correspondence, this is related to press releases and letters from local authorities from 2008 so the discovery exercise is not straightforward. However, we will reply as soon as we can.