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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21 November 2023 to Question 452 on Joint Air Quality Unit, what steps he is taking to ensure that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs/Department for Transport Joint Air Quality Unit (a) fulfills its remit and (b) delivers value for money.

Ministerial oversight of the Joint Air Quality Unit (JAQU) is in line with that for other parts of the Department. The 2022 National Audit Office review of the NO₂ Programme, which Joint Air Quality Unit (JAQU) delivers, noted the progress that Government has made in tackling illegal levels of nitrogen dioxide air pollution.