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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the UK is on course to meet the World Health Organisation targets for air pollution by 2030.

Annual assessment of air quality (AQ) in the UK is undertaken as part of compliance assessment against legally binding UK AQ standards and details of these assessments are published on our UK Air website. Compliance in 2020 was detailed in the Air Pollution in the UK report (2020) published in September 2021 (available here: https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/library/annualreport/).

We will consider the World Health Organization AQ guidelines as part of an evidence led process in setting any new AQ targets, including the new PM2.5 targets through the Environment Act 2021.