Question follow-through · 18559
Environment Protection: Business
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of existing environmental adaptation measures in helping businesses build resilience to climate-related disasters.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 9 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 16 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 4 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
9 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of existing environmental adaptation measures in helping businesses build resilience to climate-related disasters.
12 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Climate Change Act 2008 requires the Secretary of State to produce a National Adaptation Programme in response to the Government’s most recent Climate Change Risk Assessment, on a five-yearly cycle. The third National Adaptation Programme, published i...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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