Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make it her policy to increase binding commitments to protect the world's poorest from climate-related natural disasters and extreme weather at the Marrakech Climate Conference in November.

Ahead of the Paris Summit on Climate Change in December 2015 the UK committed to increase its climate finance by at least 50%, and will provide at least £5.8 billion over the next five years to help protect those most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The UK is also part of the G7 pledge to expand climate risk insurance to cover up to an additional 400 million people in vulnerable developing countries by 2020.