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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the UK’s level of resilience to climate risks ahead of the Climate Change Committee Well Adapted UK report.

The Government has a statutory duty under the Climate Change Act 2008 to assess climate risks to the UK every five years in the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA). CCRA3 was published in January 2022 and sets out the Government’s current assessment.

We welcome the Climate Change Committee’s newly published Well-Adapted UK report and Independent Assessment for the fourth CCRA. This will inform the Government’s CCRA4 which is due to be published in January 2027.