Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which organisations made reports in the first round of reporting under the Adaptation Reporting Power; and which of those organisations have informed her Department that they will not be reporting in the second round of reporting under that power.

All the organisations which provided reports under the first round of the Adaption Reporting Power are listed in Annex A of Defra’s “2013 Strategy for exercising the Adaptation Reporting Power and list of priority reporting authorities”. The reports are published on the GOV.UK website at: www.gov.uk/government/publications/adaptation-reporting-power-received-reports.

All of the organisations which are participating in the second round of reporting are listed on the GOV.UK website in the document “List of organisations which were invited to participate in the second round.” This can be found at: www.gov.uk/government/publications/adapting-to-climate-change-2013-strategy-for-exercising-the-adaptation-reporting-power. The list includes all of the organisations that participated in the first round of reporting plus a number of new reporters. Of the 111 organisations invited to report, 101 have declared that they will submit voluntary Adaptation Reporting Power reports to Government.