Emergencies: Mobile Phones

(asked on 28th August 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made with Cabinet colleagues on whether mobile phone alerts should be targeted at areas subject to the highest level of heat-health risk, rather than issued nationally.


Answered by
Diana Johnson Portrait
Diana Johnson
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 7th September 2026

The alert to which the Hon Member refers related specifically to the risk of wildfires and did not provide general health advice.

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