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
Labour — Leyton 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 DaltonThe 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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