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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, at what level his Department values the reduction of the risk of death per fatal casualty prevented; and if he will give an example of a policy intervention where this evaluation was made.

I refer the Rt. Hon. Member to the reply given on Monday, 07 July 2014: Official Report, Column 73W.

An example of a policy intervention where the reduction of risk of death is valued is in the consultation stage Impact Assessment on whether to issue a Ministerial Direction for the preparation of Reservoir Flood Plans, issued on 17 December 2009. This document has been placed in the House Library.