Public Sector: Climate Change and Temperature
(asked on 15th October 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that (a) the NHS and (b) other public services are resilient to extreme heat and the impacts of climate change.
Answered by
Jenny Riddell-Carpenter
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The Government is committed to strengthening the resilience of the NHS and other public services to extreme heat and the wider impacts of climate change. Further details of the action being taken are set out in the Secretary of State’s letter to the Environmental Audit Committee of 14 July 2026: committees.parliament.uk/publications/54314/documents/301804/default/.