Mr. Soames

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what recent assessment she has made of energy and climate change-related threats to national security. ( 310502 )

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Tessa Jowell

The first annual update to the National Security Strategy, published in June 2009, identified both competition for energy, and climate change, as important factors that contribute to shaping threats to the UK's national security.

Climate change can act as a driver of insecurity, internationally through exacerbation of existing social, economic and political sources of tension, and domestically through increased frequency of extreme weather events. In this context, the Government have also begun work on the first UK Climate Change Risk Assessment; as the National Security Strategy states, national security risks will be considered as part of this broader work, and will inform the National Risk Register.

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