Cameron splashes about on flood defence policy

The substance of Jeremy Corbyn’s questions today in the Chamber was very good. The Labour leader used enough detail to make David Cameron look uncomfortable on flood spending and which defence schemes were approved and which weren’t. The Prime Minister tried to talk repeatedly about the government increasing money on flood defences and the importance of good economic management, but Corbyn stuck at it, with one particularly good question:

‘In 2011, a £190 million flood defence project in the River Aire in Leeds was cancelled on cost grounds by the government, a thousand homes and businesses in Leeds were flooded in recent weeks, the government is still only committed to a scaled-down version of the project worth a fraction of its total cost when the Prime Minister claimed that money was no object when it came to flood relief. When he meets the Leeds MPs and Judith Blake the leader of Leeds Council in the near future or his Secretary of State does will he guarantee the full scheme will go ahead to protect Leeds from future flooding?’