Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of people in London who have died as a result of air pollution in each year since 2010; and if he will estimate the forecast number of such deaths in the next 10 years.

Estimates of the fraction of mortality in English local authority areas and regions attributable to long-term exposure to particulate air pollution arising from human activities are published by Public Health England as one of the indicators in the Department’s Public Health Outcomes Framework, which is available at:

http://www.phoutcomes.info/search/air%20pollution#gid/1/pat/6/ati/101/page/0/par/E12000007/are/E09000002)

Long-term exposure to air pollution is understood to be a contributory factor to deaths from respiratory and cardiovascular disease.