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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the devolved administrations on the new £70 million flood defences scheme.

Flood defence spending is a devolved matter, so questions about flood management spending and policy should be directed to the devolved administration as Defra does not have information on devolved administration spending. The Barnett formula is applied in the normal way to any new funding provided to UK Government Departments, when the funding is allocated to those Departments’ budgets. ‘Barnetted’ funding to devolved administrations is not ring fenced.