Air Pollution
(asked on 28th January 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
What steps he is taking to help reduce the financial cost to the NHS of treating patients affected by high levels of air pollution.
This question was answered on 28th January 2020
The best way to reduce National Health Service costs and improve health is by tackling the sources of air pollution, so that less pollution is emitted in the first place. The actions set out in our Clean Air Strategy are targeted at a range of sources and pollutants and will result in the number of people who live in areas where particulate matter is above the World Health Organization’s guidelines being halved by 2025.