To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what timetable he has set for updating his Department's Green Book guidance to enable climate change adaptation to be taken into account in his Department's decision-making processes. (277395)

Officials from DEFRA and a number of other Departments including the Treasury have been working on supplementary Green Book guidance to enable adaptation to climate change to be taken into account in the decision process. It is planned that this will be issued during the summer and made available to all Departments through the Treasury's Green Book website.