Full details of the scheme will be sent to authorities who express an intention of making a claim as soon as possible. In the meantime, it is important that authorities notify the Department for Communities and Local Government of any intention to claim within one month of an emergency beginning. The July scheme will not automatically apply to events that began in June unless separate notification for July is received.
The spending period for the July flooding with be from 20 July 2007 to 21 January 2008. Final claims will be invited by 22 February 2008.
The terms of the scheme will be more formally issued to each local authority that makes contact, along with a claim form, once the period for notification comes to an end around the end of August.
For further information contact:
Tony Finnegan
Department for Communities and Local Government
Tel: 020 7944 4017
Fax: 020 7944 9621
Email: tony.finnegan@communities.gsi.gov.uk
