Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 78980

Smoke and Chimney Gases: Death

Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 29 October 2025

Question

Mr Calvin Bailey

LabourLeyton and Wanstead

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate the UK Health Security Agency has made of the number of people who died from wildfire smoke in each of the last ten years.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has not made any estimates of deaths attributable to wildfire smoke in the United Kingdom in each of the last ten years.Whilst there is extensive evidence of health impacts from other countries linked to wildfires, th...

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