Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 2 December 2025.
Bradley Thomas
Conservative, Bromsgrove
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.
Emma Hardy
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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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