Oral QuestionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

What progress he has made on ensuring access to affordable flood insurance for people living in high flood risk areas; and if he will make a statement.

Tabled: 21 January 2018Answered: 25 January 2018

Asked by

Rachael Maskell

Labour (Co-op)York Central

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Answer from Hansard

The Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (Stephen Doughty)

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his question. Decisions on how ODA will be used will be considered as part of the ongoing spending review. Reducing the overall size of the budget will necessarily have an impact on the scale and shape of our work. I can say, however, that our important work and support for Gavi is immunising 300 million children and saving up to 8 million lives, and our £1 billion pledge to the Global Fund for 2023-25 is supporting prevention and treatment for HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, and will help to save over 1 million lives.