Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to Autumn Budget 2017, if he will list the 25 new schemes that will receive a share of the £36 million funding for flood protection; and what criteria his Department used to allocate that funding.

The £36 million of the £76 million funding announced for flood defence at the Autumn 2017 Budget has been allocated to the 37 projects in the list attached. The criteria was that each scheme needed to be a new project that could be completed in the next 3 years, that schemes needed to either generate sufficient benefits in terms of reduced flood risk to qualify for 100% Government funding or have a high confidence of securing any partnership contributions needed.