Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 80030

Department of Health and Social Care: Climate Change

Tabled: 10 October 2025

Answered: 20 October 2025

Question

Alex Mayer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of extreme weather related to climate change since 1 January 2020.

Answer

Ashley Dalton

The UK Health Security Agency’s (UKHSA) Health Effects of Climate Change report estimated that heat-related mortality from climate change and related socio-economic change in England could cost approximately £6.8 billion per year in the 2020s, rising to £...

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