Question follow-through · 16129
Infrastructure: Climate Change
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he has taken to help protect national infrastructure assets from climate change.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 26 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 28 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 16 Dec 2024 · 20 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he has taken to help protect national infrastructure assets from climate change.
28 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Department is supporting the third National Adaptation Programme 3 (NAP3) and climate change initiatives by working with various agencies to protect infrastructure from climate hazards. NAP3 runs from 2023 to 2028 and sets out how government will resp...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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