To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many zones at risk of flooding have been highlighted by the Environment Agency in (a) Poole and (b) the south west region. (151571)

The Environment Agency have flood warning areas, each of which relates to a discrete area at risk that receives the flood watch, flood warning and severe flood warning services.

Within the south west region of the Agency, there is one tidal flood warning area specifically for Poole. There are 202 fluvial and 37 tidal flood warning areas for the whole region, a total of 239 risk zones.