Question follow-through · 74832
Noise: Pollution
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the cost of noise pollution to the economy.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 3 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 9 Sept 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the cost of noise pollution to the economy.
8 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Sept 2025
Answer published
The UK Health Security Agency estimates that in 2018, around 100,000 Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) were lost in England due to road traffic noise, across the UK population. DALYs are an internationally recognised metric where one DALY represents ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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