Question follow-through · 85525
Fires: Health Hazards
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.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 27 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 2 Dec 2025 · 36 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Oct 2025
Question tabled
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.
29 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Dec 2025
Answer published
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.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Sustainable Farming Incentive
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Agriculture: Finance
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Agriculture
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Fertilisers: Prices
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