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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of developing an air quality strategy to improve the capacity of the Government to meet its air quality targets.

Cleaning up the UK’s air quality and cutting harmful emissions is a priority for this Government.

In July the Government launched the UK plan for tackling roadside nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentrations. This will require local authorities to produce local air quality plans which reduce NO2 levels in the shortest possible time.

In addition to our work on NO2 we will deliver an updated Clean Air Strategy in 2018. This will set out how we will work towards our international commitments to significantly reduce damaging emissions of five major air pollutants by 2030.