Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on protecting vulnerable schools from flooding.

School buildings should enable children to be taught within a weather-proof and safe environment. The Department for Education regularly reviews its winter preparedness for schools. Officials at the Department continue to work with the Cabinet Office’s Winter Resilience Network. Following Storm Desmond and Storm Eva last winter, the Department has been working with appropriate local bodies to ensure flood resilience is considered as part of reinstatement works.