§ Baroness Whiteasked Her Majesty's Government:
When they will publish the aggregate results of cost-benefit appraisals of land drainage and flood protection schemes.
§ The Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Lord Belstead)I have today placed in the Library of the House a paper summarising the revised cost-benefit procedures for land drainage and flood protection schemes. This is for the use of all drainage authorities seeking grant aid in England and Wales from my department or from the Secretary of State for Wales. The paper sets out the form in which we intend to issue the aggregate results of cost-benefit appraisals for individual land drainage and flood protection schemes to interested parties, and fulfils the undertaking given in paragraph 2.11 of the consultation paper on theFinancing and Administration of Land Drainage, Flood Protection and Coast Protection issued earlier this year.