LETTER: Vital funding for floods clean-up
The EU’s Solidarity Fund, which has a budget of up to £414 million for 2014, was set up to provide financial assistance to member countries struck by major national disasters.
When the 2007 floods hit, the UK was granted £134 million from the fund to help with the clean-up process.
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Hide AdI am becoming increasingly concerned that Conservative Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson, is ignoring calls to apply for funding because he would rather keep a positive EU story like this out of the press.
We only have a very small window – just ten weeks – for the government to apply. We cannot let Tory party political motivations stand between us and that vital funding.
GILES GOODALL
Lib Dem European Parliamentary Candidate for South East England, Clays Hill, Bramber