Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to use (a) scientific research and (b) global air quality standards to inform decisions on air quality targets.

We have published reports and an impact assessment as part of the process of setting air quality targets on our UK Air website: Air Quality Targets in the Environment Act - Defra, UK. The Environmental Improvement Plan establishes our first interim targets and outlines the actions that we will take to meet them.