Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the report by Mahon, M.B. et al. entitled A meta-analysis on global change drivers and the risk of infectious disease, published in Nature on 8 May 2024.

In December 2023 the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) published the Health Effects of Climate Change report, which is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/climate-change-health-effects-in-the-uk

This report details the potential risks and impacts of climate change on human health. The UKHSA will continue to work closely with other departments and agencies, to assess emerging evidence on drivers of infectious diseases, to inform future health policies.