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Fires: Health Hazards

Asked by Bradley ThomasConservativeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 2 December 2025UIN 85525

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate her Department has made of the number of people who die each year from wildfire smoke.

Answered by Emma Hardy

Whilst Defra considers smoke from wildfires to be important the department has not, to date, made an estimate of the number of people who die each year from wildfire smoke.

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