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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that nitrogen dioxide levels around hospitals and schools will be within legal limits by 2025.

This is a devolved matter, including for London. In July 2017, we published the NO2 Plan, backed by £3.5 billion funding, which sets out the steps we are taking to reduce NO2 concentrations in the shortest possible time on all roads currently breaching legal limits, including any such roads located near schools and hospitals. We are working with local authorities to identify measures to bring forward compliance, and support them with guidance and funding. Additionally, we published our new world leading Clean Air Strategy on 14 January this year, which contains new and ambitious goals, legislation, investment and policies to help us to clean up our air faster and more effectively.