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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on meeting WHO clean air standards.

Ministers and officials from Defra and the Department of Health and Social Care have regular discussions on a range of issues.

The Government is committed to meeting legal targets for air quality, including the targets recently set under the Environment Act 2021. Defra will be working closely with our colleagues across government, including at the Department for Health and Social Care, as we deliver a comprehensive and ambitious Clean Air Strategy including a series of interventions to reduce everyone’s exposure to air pollution and improve public health.