To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether any region in the UK has received aid from the European Commission Solidarity Fund for (a) flood damage and (b) other reasons in the last five years. (150120)

In the last year no region of the UK has received aid from the European Commission Solidarity Fund in respect of either flood or other damage.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether she plans to request aid from the European Commission Solidarity Fund for areas affected by flood damage. (150121)

No such application has yet been made as we are currently collecting all the information necessary for us to assess the full financial effect of the damage before considering whether such an application could meet the strict criteria laid down for mobilising the Fund.