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

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they are supporting, or plan to support, work to repair damage caused by landslips and coastal erosion in the South-East.

The Government announced a support package totalling over £560million to overcome the immediate and longer term recovery issues faced by local authorities, communities, individuals and businesses following the severe weather of winter 2013/14. Coast protection authorities in the South East are responsible for the management and recovery of coastal land slips under the Coast Protection Act 1949.