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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the publication Impact of 2014 Winter Floods on Agriculture in England, published on 4 June 2014, if her Department will estimate the (a) market value, (b) non-market value and (c) social value of the cost of those floods.

The report ‘The Economic Impact of the 2014 Winter Floods on Agriculture in England’, commissioned by Defra, estimated the economic cost of flooding on agriculture in England to be between £13.3 million and £28.5 million. A copy of the full report is available on the GOV.UK webpages. The report sets out the direct economic costs to the sector of the floods, but does not assess either non-market or social impacts.