National Heat Risk Commission – Call for Evidence

This Call for Evidence marks the first milestone for the Commission and is the first step in an evolving programme of evidence-gathering and engagement on how the UK can improve resilience to the growing risk of extreme heat

This call for evidence is part of the initial phase which seeks evidence, experience or insight from organisations across the UK. Future phases will build on the evidence gathered through this process and the Commission’s developing programme of work, including a phase focused on hearing directly from individuals.

In this phase the National Heat Risk Commission would like to hear from businesses, public bodies, institutions, and voluntary and community organisations in the UK.

The Commission wants to understand how organisations have been affected by extreme heat, and its companion hazards of drought and wildfire; what organisations are doing to prepare and respond; and what would help enable further action.

The Commission is seeking evidence from organisations and businesses in response to the following questions:

1. How is extreme heat, and its companion hazards of drought or wildfire, affecting your organisation, sector and the people you work with or serve?
2. Are some people or communities more affected by extreme heat, drought or wildfire than others?
3. What is your organisation doing to understand, prepare for and respond to extreme heat, and/or its companion hazards of drought or wildfire?
4. What has worked well, and what have you learnt?
5. What tools, information, evidence or guidance do you use, and what is missing or needs to improve?
6. What barriers are preventing your organisation or sector from taking further action or delivering planned measures?
7. What do you need from other organisations or institutions to become more resilient to extreme heat?
8. What wider changes would help your sector, communities and the UK become more resilient to increasing heat?
9. In ten years’ time, what would ‘good’ heat resilience look like?

Please email your evidence to NHRC@lse.ac.uk by Friday 30 October 2026.