Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Written Statement of 16 January 2017, on winter flooding 2015-16, HCWS412, on what date he first became aware that the UK was legally obliged to make a payment of £14.5 million in respect of the 2007 application for Solidarity Fund assistance.
Commission audits which ended in 2012 on the UK’s use of the European Union Solidarity Fund in response to the 2007 floods argued that errors were made in the use and management of this funding among government departments. The Commission issued a final invoice for payment for £14.5 million in May 2016.