Transport: Exhaust Emissions

(asked on 5th July 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to use transport emission data to inform public health interventions.


Answered by
Neil O'Brien Portrait
Neil O'Brien
This question was answered on 17th July 2023

Local authorities have powers over local transport and have a strategic planning function, and therefore play an important role in addressing the impact of transport-related air pollution. Local authorities are responsible for assessing their air quality for specified pollutants and must take proactive action to improve air quality. Where local authorities are required to produce an Air Quality Action Plan or Air Quality Strategy, Directors of Public Health should be involved in the preparation of these documents.

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