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 measure changes in the level of climate-related (a) loss of the coastline, (b) flooding, (c) drought and (d) other extreme weather events.

The Government uses cutting-edge science, including advances in climate modelling and projections, to inform and prepare our response to rising sea levels. The Government continues to work closely with the Met Office to assess the science of sea-level rise as part of the Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme, including examining the implications of the latest IPCC's 6^th assessment report (AR6). This includes the outcome of significant ice mass loss from Antarctica and Greenland.

Our long-term policy statement sets out our ambition to create a nation more resilient to future flood and coastal erosion risk. It includes five ambitious policies and over 40 supporting actions we will take to accelerate progress to better protect and prepare the country against flooding and coastal erosion from more frequent extreme weather as a result of climate change.