We are committed to the recommendations of the TCFD, to provide our stakeholders with transparent and useful information on the Group's climate-related risks and opportunities and to help communicate our strategy, sustainability framework, targets and our progress against these.

The board recognises the systematic risk posed by climate change and the need for urgent mitigating action and are committed to addressing climate-related risks and reducing the Group's environmental impact and carbon emissions. To help achieve this, we are committed to the disclosure recommendations of the TCFD, providing our stakeholders with transparent information on material climate-related risks and opportunities that are relevant to our business.

The information set out in the Building a Responsible and Sustainable Business section of our annual report and accounts aims to provide key climate-related information that is aligned with the 11 recommendations, covering four thematic areas, as set out by the TCFD. We believe we are compliant with the TCFD recommendations, including the relevant material elements of the 'Guidance for all sectors', with the exception of two areas, namely the financial quantification of scenario analysis and metrics and targets.

In 2023, our detailed climate scenarios, which are selected from the risks identified in the Group's climate risk register as described in the Strategy page, were modelled with the help of our external consultants. We are currently working through the outputs from the scenario analysis and expect to provide the more detailed quantitative disclosures, and move towards being fully compliant with the TCFD recommendations, in our 2024 annual report. Further detail is set out in the Our TCFD roadmap to full disclosure page.

Consistent with last year, we have qualitatively assessed the impact of climate risk on the Group's balance sheet, including the impact on the measurement of financial instruments, the Group's owned land and buildings, goodwill and the Group's going concern and long-term viability, and have concluded that there is no material impact on the financial statements for the year ended 25 March 2023.

Some elements of our TCFD reporting are addressed elsewhere in our annual report and accounts. The table below outlines where this information can be found.

VSCH will be incorporated into our sustainability framework in 2024, following its acquisition in April 2023.