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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when her Department plans to announce its final decision on the allocation of grant funding to flood risk management authorities in response to the floods of Boxing Day 2015.

We are investing a record £2.5 billion to better protect 300,000 more properties from flooding by 2021.

At Budget 2016, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced a £700 million increase in flood defence and resilience spending. £532m has been allocated to new defences, additional maintenance, new temporary defences and incident management equipment.

Any further allocations will be made by HM Treasury.