Air Pollution: Death
(asked on 18th February 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of deaths that were attributed to air pollution in (a) Plymouth, (b) the South West and (c) England in each of the last five years.
The data is not available in the format requested. However, the Public Health Outcomes Framework for England includes an indicator for air pollution expressed as the proportion of adult mortality attributable to long-term exposure to human-made particulate air pollution, which is updated annually.
The following table shows the proportion of adult mortality attributable to long-term exposure to human made particulate air pollution in Plymouth, the South West region and England in each year between 2016 and 2019.
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
Plymouth | 4.6% | 4.2% | 4.0% | 3.9% |
South West | 4.8% | 4.4% | 4.4% | 4.1% |
England | 5.4% | 5.1% | 5.2% | 5.1% |