Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 119569

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: National Security

Tabled: 10 March 2026
Answered: 17 March 2026

Question

Luke Taylor

Liberal DemocratSutton and Cheam

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she plans to take to protect the UK’s national security, in the context of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ Nature Security Assessment on Global Biodi

Answer

Mary Creagh
The Nature security assessment forms part of routine cross-government resilience planning and complements the UK’s National Security Strategy, National Risk Register and Chronic Risk Analysis. Climate change and nature loss act as risk multipliers, increa...

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