Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the national security assessment entitled Global Biodiversity Loss, Ecosystem Collapse and National Security, published on 20 January 2026.

We are integrating the Assessment into strategic planning and working with partners across government to ensure that climate and nature-related threats to national resilience are considered systematically.

As set out in the Strategic Defence Review, Defence recognises climate and nature crises as persistent transnational challenges that will shape the operating environment. This has been confirmed by the Ukraine battlefield, where signatures from ISR drones are visible from many miles away.