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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if her Department will publish the assessments it has prepared of the potential effects of an East Coast storm surge on agriculture, food supply, transport infrastructure, critical infrastructure and loss of life.

Such assessments which are used for central government and Local Authority planning purposes contain officially sensitive information which renders them unsuitable for publication. For example, the Defra assessment contains sensitive information concerning critical national infrastructure.