Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effects on health of (a) precarious work and (b) the climate crisis.

No such assessment has been made of the effects on health of precarious work.

The National Adaptation Programme has an objective for Public Health England to update the evidence base on the health impacts of climate change, considering a wide range of risks and opportunities of climate change impacts on health as identified by the second Climate Change Risk Assessment.

An update of estimates of direct and indirect climate-related health impacts using the UK Climate Projections’ 18 projections will be included. Findings will be published in a comprehensive report ‘Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK’.