Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what measures in the Government's National Space Strategy will take account of the increased prevalence of coronal mass ejections.

Alongside the National Space Strategy, the government published the Severe Space Weather Preparedness Strategy.

A key commitment within the Severe Space Weather Preparedness Strategy is to enhance our understanding of severe space weather, its impacts, and our ability to forecast events such as coronal mass ejections.

An increase in coronal mass ejections has been anticipated within the context of the Strategy, which will inform effective mitigation processes and resilience planning against the impacts of space weather to the UK.