Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of air quality in London on children’s health.

The Exploration of Health and Lungs in the Environment (EXHALE) programme is a London focussed study that identifies links between pollution and children’s lung health. The Department has commissioned a review on adverse birth outcomes and early life effects associated with exposure to air pollution.

The Public Health Outcomes Framework 3.01 indicator, updated every year, provides the fraction of mortality attributable to long-term exposure to human-made particulate air pollution at local authority level which is 6.4% for the London region.