PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Floods: Yorkshire and the Humber (8 April 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what final estimate of damage in the Yorkshire and Humber region caused by recent flooding his Department has provided to the EU Commission.

Asked by:
Imran Hussain (Labour)

The UK Government submitted an initial application to the European Union Solidarity Fund on Friday 26 February which included a provisional estimate of the costs of direct damage incurred by storms Desmond and Eva. We are in the process of refining our cost estimations and figures, and will update Parliament once the application is finalised.

Answered by:
Lord Wharton of Yarm (Conservative)
13 April 2016