Question follow-through · 76767

Climate Change: Risk Assessment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he took to consider climate change tipping points when preparing the update to the National Risk Register in January 2025.

answeredCabinet Office

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Answering body
Cabinet Office
Tabled
11 Sept 2025
Target answer date
15 Sept 2025
Answer
1 Oct 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 11 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he took to consider climate change tipping points when preparing the update to the National Risk Register in January 2025.

  2. 15 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 1 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    The UK is facing an ever-changing and growing set of risks. The National Risk Register focuses on the reasonable worst case ‘acute’ risks, which are discrete events requiring an emergency response and likely to occur over the next two-five years. All risk...

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