Current status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 15 January 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the current annual cost of flood damage, caused by climate change, is to property and business.
It is not possible to say if any single instance of flooding is attributableto climate change directly, and we do not collect separate data on any marginalincrease in annual flood damage cost it may cause.
The Executive is about to publish updated research entitledClimate Change: Review of levels of protection offered by flood preventionschemes. This research will allow a better understanding of the impacts ofclimate change on flood risk.