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Flood Defence Funding

Asked if the Prime Minister would be correcting his statement to House on floods, given that there had been a cut in the amount of funding, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that it wasn’t the Government’s practice to correct accurate statements.

Put that there had been an 11% cut in funding, the PMS replied that the Prime Minister had said that flood defence funding had been protected in the Spending Review, which it had been.

Asked what his definition of protected’ was, the PMS said that spending on flood defences had been rising in the previous period. The amount of money being spent now was broadly the same, despite the fact that the Government was having to cut spending in other areas by up to a third.

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