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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what support his Department is providing to areas adversely affected by Storm Christoph and its aftermath in West Yorkshire.

The Government is closely monitoring the impact of Storm Christoph on affected communities and coordinating the cross-government response to flooding impacts.

Across West Yorkshire, Environment Agency flood defences have protected approximately 7100 properties from flooding. The EA's incident rooms have been open and operational teams have been out on the ground 24 hours a day. The EA also worked alongside Local Authorities and the emergency services as part of Strategic and Tactical Command Groups to manage the flood risk and keep people safe.

With localised flooding incidents, local authorities are expected to have well established contingency arrangements in place and to be able to respond and support their local communities from within existing budgets.

Following severe weather with significant impacts across multiple local authorities the Government is able to deploy the Flood Recovery Framework.

We will continue to monitor the situation and assess whether further support is needed in the event that flooding impacts increase.