Floods: EU Grants and Loans

Miss McIntosh
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what assessment she has made of the effects of the difference between the amount expected and the amount received from the European Solidarity Fund for flood recovery; what consequential adjustments she plans to make to spending priorities; and if she will make a statement.

John Healey
I refer the hon. Member to the written statement I made on 6 May 2008, Official Report, columns 18-19WS.