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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment the Government has made of the potential effect of the outcome of the EU referendum on flood defence funding.

No Government Grant-in-Aid funding for flood defence projects comes from the European Union. Where EU Structural Funds are being used in partnership funding, current arrangements for such funding will remain in place until we leave the EU.

Defra will continue to ensure that the right policies are in place to reduce the risk of flooding and coastal erosion.

The priorities for negotiating our exit from the EU will be a matter for the new Prime Minister and their Cabinet.