Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the Chief Medical Officer’s annual report 2022 on air pollution.
The Chief Medical Officer’s report brought together assessments by multiple scientists. Much of the analysis had already been set out in the 2019 Clean Air Strategy, as was action to keep improving air quality, further updated in our recent Environmental Improvement Plan.