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391703

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date	21/07/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Climate Change
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many full-time equivalent staff in all Government departments and agencies in total were working on climate change adaptation in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13, (d) 2013-14 and (e) 2014-15; and if he will estimate the likely number of such staff in each of the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Brent North
tabling member printed	Barry Gardiner
uin	8333
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 07/09/2015 11:52:25 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	146 label Biography information for Barry Gardiner

391778

registered interest
date	21/07/2015
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Climate Change
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many full-time equivalent staff were working on climate change adaptation in her Department in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13, (d) 2013-14 and (e) 2014-15; and if she will estimate the likely number of such staff in each of the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Brent North
tabling member printed	Barry Gardiner
uin	8331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p>Adaptation is embedded as an integral part of policy across Defra and all levels of Government and within a broad range of programmes and activities that support and build the UK’s resilience to climate change.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Defra, as the lead Department, maintains a core adaptation team that supports the implementation of the Government’s responsibilities for climate change adaptation under the Climate Change Act 2008. Resources allocated to this support role vary according to our position in the five-year cycle set out under the Act and the progress we have made in embedding adaptation within Government policies, programmes and activities.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The core Defra adaptation team delivered the very first UK Climate Change Risk Assessment in 2012 and the very first National Adaptation Programme (NAP) report in 2013. The focus since then has been on delivering those actions set out in the NAP report which has reduced the need for a large core team.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The direct staff support that Defra and its agencies provided for climate change adaptation between 2010-11 and 2014-15 is set out in table A. These figures include Environment Agency staff delivering the Climate Ready Support Service between 2011-12 and 2014-15. It is not possible to predict the numbers of staff that will be required in these adaptation roles in future. It is also not possible to estimate the much larger numbers of full-time equivalent staff across all of the policies, programmes and activities of Defra and its agencies that directly or indirectly support our adaptation objectives.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Table A</strong>: FTEs in Defra and its agencies working on climate change adaptation</p></td><td colspan="5"><p><strong>FTE</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Core Defra</p></td><td><p>37.0</p></td><td><p>32.5</p></td><td><p>23.5</p></td><td><p>6.0</p></td><td><p>6.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Defra agencies</p></td><td><p>48.5</p></td><td><p>54.2</p></td><td><p>55.3</p></td><td><p>51.4</p></td><td><p>40.7</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 8332 question first answered 11/09/2015 10:45:55 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	146 label Biography information for Barry Gardiner

391786

registered interest
date	21/07/2015
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Climate Change
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many full-time equivalent staff were working on climate change adaptation in her Department's agencies in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13, (d) 2013-14 and (e) 2014-15; and if she will estimate the likely number of such staff in each of the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Brent North
tabling member printed	Barry Gardiner
uin	8332
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p>Adaptation is embedded as an integral part of policy across Defra and all levels of Government and within a broad range of programmes and activities that support and build the UK’s resilience to climate change.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Defra, as the lead Department, maintains a core adaptation team that supports the implementation of the Government’s responsibilities for climate change adaptation under the Climate Change Act 2008. Resources allocated to this support role vary according to our position in the five-year cycle set out under the Act and the progress we have made in embedding adaptation within Government policies, programmes and activities.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The core Defra adaptation team delivered the very first UK Climate Change Risk Assessment in 2012 and the very first National Adaptation Programme (NAP) report in 2013. The focus since then has been on delivering those actions set out in the NAP report which has reduced the need for a large core team.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The direct staff support that Defra and its agencies provided for climate change adaptation between 2010-11 and 2014-15 is set out in table A. These figures include Environment Agency staff delivering the Climate Ready Support Service between 2011-12 and 2014-15. It is not possible to predict the numbers of staff that will be required in these adaptation roles in future. It is also not possible to estimate the much larger numbers of full-time equivalent staff across all of the policies, programmes and activities of Defra and its agencies that directly or indirectly support our adaptation objectives.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Table A</strong>: FTEs in Defra and its agencies working on climate change adaptation</p></td><td colspan="5"><p><strong>FTE</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Core Defra</p></td><td><p>37.0</p></td><td><p>32.5</p></td><td><p>23.5</p></td><td><p>6.0</p></td><td><p>6.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Defra agencies</p></td><td><p>48.5</p></td><td><p>54.2</p></td><td><p>55.3</p></td><td><p>51.4</p></td><td><p>40.7</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 8331 question first answered 11/09/2015 10:45:55 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	146 label Biography information for Barry Gardiner

391423

registered interest
date	20/07/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Climate Change
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if she will make it her policy to obtain binding commitments from her international counterparts at forthcoming global talks on climate change.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	7922
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>The UK Government is committed to securing at the Conference of the Parties (COP) 21 in Paris, an ambitious, legally binding global Agreement on climate change with mitigation commitments from all Parties and a set of rules that ensure transparency and accountability of commitments that will allow the world to track progress.</p><p>My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, is working closely with her international counterparts to pave the way for an ambitious deal. In June, the Prime Minister joined other G7 leaders in calling for an ambitious climate package to be agreed in Paris. But there remains a lot of work to do. My Ministerial colleagues and I will take every opportunity to press for an agreement that meets these objectives.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 07/09/2015 08:40:57 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern