Floods

(asked on 19th June 2014) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the contribution by the Prime Minister of 18 June 2014, Official Report, column 1116W, what extra resource his Department will provide to deal with extended eligibility for claims made under the (a) Farming Recovery Fund and (b) support for fishermen schemes.


Answered by
George Eustice Portrait
George Eustice
This question was answered on 30th June 2014

The Prime Minister in his comments mentioned looking at the eligibility for grants for those who had suffered from the winter flooding to earlier flooding incidents, and we are doing so. The Government has provided a number of funding support mechanisms for those affected by the winter floods. Because of their origin as EU grant schemes, neither of the two grants which are referred to here, the Farming Recovery Fund and the European Fisheries Fund, are open to extending eligibility.

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