To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Baroness Andrews on 23 January (WA 238), following the flooding in July 2007, which (a) local authorities, (b) individual property owners, and (c) other organisations received money from the Pitt fund and other budgets; and for what projects. [HL2236]

Annexe B to the Government's response to Sir Michael Pitt's review of the 2007 floods sets out where additional funding will be provided to take forward particular recommendations. In addition to the details provided in the annexe:

The Secretary of State announced on 17 December 2008 that six local authorities would be the first to be funded by Defra to prepare surface water management plans. These are: Hull, Gloucestershire, Leeds, Warrington, Richmond upon Thames and West Berkshire, which will share £300,000. These and other English country and unitary authorities in the highest priority areas for surface water management will share a further £14.7 million over the next two years on top of other budgets already available to them. Further announcements will be made in due course.

No individual property owners have as yet received money to implement individual property resistance and resilience measures from the funding announced as part of the Government's response to the Pitt review. A total of £5 million for this purpose will be allocated via local authorities between now and March 2011. Applications from local authorities to receive a proportion of the first £2 million to be granted are due by 25 March 2009. The new grant scheme follows a £500,000 feasibility study completed in 2008.

Three projects in Somerset, North Yorkshire and Derbyshire will receive a total of £1 million from Defra to demonstrate how natural processes and land management techniques can help protect against flooding. The three successful projects are:

Holnicote Estate, near Minehead in Somerset—project managed by the National Trust;

Pickering Beck and River Seven, near Pickering, North Yorkshire—project managed by Forest Research; and

Upper Derwent Valley, Derbyshire—project managed by the Environment Agency.