Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 80020

Department for Business and Trade: Climate Change

Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 20 October 2025

Question

Alex Mayer

LabourDunstable and Leighton Buzzard

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate his Department has made of the costs to his Department of extreme weather events related to climate change on the level of economic growth since 1 January 2020; and what steps he is takin

Answer

Kate Dearden
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has not made an assessment of the financial cost to the Department (either in terms of physical damage, disruption to operations or employee productivity) of extreme weather events during the period in question....

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