Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 80024

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change

Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 16 October 2025

Question

Alex Mayer

LabourDunstable and Leighton Buzzard

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the costs to her Department of climate-related extreme weather since 1 January 2020.

Answer

Emma Hardy
The third UK Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA3), published in 2021 under the UK Climate Change Act 2008, includes a Monetary Valuation of Risks and Opportunities assessment of the current and future costs of climate change to the UK.