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Bill Documents
13 Jan 2020 - Bill
HL Bill 17 (as introduced)
Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill [HL] 2019-21
Lords Chamber
Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill [HL]
1st reading (Hansard) - Mon 13 Jan 2020
No Department present
Bill
Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill [HL] 2019-21
Presented by Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green Party)
Private Members' Bill (Starting in the House of Lords)
Summary

A bill to establish the right to breathe clean air; to require the Secretary of State to achieve and maintain clean air in England and Wales; to involve Public Health England in setting and reviewing pollutants and their limits; to enhance the powers, duties and functions of the Environment Agency, the Committee on Climate Change, local authorities (including port authorities), the Civil Aviation Authority, Highways England, Historic England and Natural England in relation to air pollution; to establish the Citizens’ Commission for Clean Air with powers to institute or intervene in legal proceedings; to require the Secretary of State and the relevant national authorities to apply environmental principles in carrying out their duties under this Act and the clean air enactments; and for connected purposes