Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to incentivise investment in infrastructure for climate resilience and adaptation.

Investment in infrastructure resilience is delivered through both public and private funding. The third National Adaptation Programme sets out in detail how each infrastructure sector is approaching the challenge of climate resilience, now and in the future, including the way in which regulatory frameworks drive investment in climate resilience.

Where the Government has concerns about the level of investment in resilience we have acted swiftly. For example, through the recent Plan for Water we have accelerated £2.2 billion of investment in measures to secure a resilient, clean and plentiful supply of water now and in the future. The 2023 Green Finance Strategy also contains a range of initiatives to help drive increased private financial flows into environmental outcomes, including climate adaptation.