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Written Question
Air Pollution
Tuesday 25th November 2025

Asked by: Baroness Griffin of Princethorpe (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that achieving clean and quality air is embedded in all legislation.

Answered by Baroness Hayman of Ullock - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

The Government is committed to further improving air quality to unlock benefits for public health, the environment and the economy.

The environmental principles policy statement sets out how ministers should interpret and proportionately apply the principles, so that they are used effectively to shape policy to protect the environment. Environment refers to the natural environment as set out in [section 44 of] the Environment Act 2021, which includes air.