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Air Pollution

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of adopting World Health Organisation Air Standards.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled: 18 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 20 Nov 2024
Answer: 27 Nov 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

18 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of adopting World Health Organisation Air Standards.
20 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Government is committed to meeting current legal targets for air quality, including the targets recently set under the Environment Act 2021, and will review the policy measures needed to achieve them. We will deliver a comprehensive Clean Air Strategy...

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