Air Pollution: Death

(asked on 14th March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate the Government has made of the number of deaths per year caused by air pollution in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 19th March 2018

The Public Health Outcomes Framework (PHOF) for England includes an indicator for air pollution expressed as the fraction of adult mortality attributable to long-term exposure to human-made particulate air pollution. The most recent published estimates available are for 2015. For England, estimates within the last five years are: 2013: 5.3%; 2014: 5.1%; 2015: 4.7%.

Figures for 2016 are due to be published with the next release of updated PHOF data in May 2018.

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