Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans she has to deliver a coordinated national wildfire strategy.

To strengthen resilience, MHCLG and Defra have established joint governance arrangements with partners across government and the resilience sector to drive coordinated action on prevention, preparedness, response and recovery. This work is helping to inform the development of a cross-government Wildfire Action Plan to improve resilience over the short, medium and long term.

The Prime Minister announced that he will convene a Wildfire Summit in the autumn, which will provide an opportunity to continue to consider wildfire resilience measures across prevention, response and recovery. Officials from all nations will continue to work together post Summit to ensure coordination across the wildfire risk landscape.