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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what identifiable expenditure her Department has spent on Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly in each year since 2007-08.

The Department does not hold consolidated information at this level of detail. The main source of funding for waste, environmental and other Defra-related local authority functions comes from the annual Revenue Support Grant. Since 2007-08, funding received by Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly from Defra and its Arms Length Bodies has additionally included:

· waste PFI credits

· grants for water and sewerage infrastructure works on the Isles of Scilly

· flood and coastal defence capital grant in aid for flood and funding for resilience projects

· rural development programme funding

· catchment restoration funding for the South Cornwall River Improvement Project

· European Fisheries Fund money to support sustainable development of fishing communities

· grant aid for Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service to help crews to deal with local flood emergencies

· funding for Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty

· capital grants for catchment sensitive farming

· funding for the South West Bioheat Programme