Question follow-through · 44350
Climate Change
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what degree of global temperature increase his Department's climate adaptation plans are intended for.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 4 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 11 Apr 2025 · 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
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Recorded timeline
4 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what degree of global temperature increase his Department's climate adaptation plans are intended for.
8 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Apr 2025
Answer published
Defra is the lead department for domestic adaptation to climate change, and as such it is responsible for coordinating requirements set out in the UK Climate Change Act 2008. Defra is the owning department for about half of the 61 risks and opportunities ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Crops and Food: Economic Situation
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