Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the paper Mental health consequences of urban air pollution: prospective population-based longitudinal survey.

No specific assessment has been made. However, the developing evidence on this issue is kept under review and this paper will be taken into account as part of the overall evidence base. There is ongoing collaborative work across Government to address the health impacts of air pollution.