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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Joint Air Quality Unit plans to publish the steps that local authorities are taking to tackle (a) air pollution and (b) congestion.

On 5 October the Government published a supplement to the 2017 UK Plan for Tackling Roadside Nitrogen Dioxide Emissions, along with 33 local feasibility studies developed by local authorities initially identified as having shorter term NO₂ exceedances. These set out the work carried out by local authorities to identify measures to bring forward compliance with legal NO₂ limits, and the next steps the Government has directed them to take where they have identified measures.

28 local authorities were directed in 2017 to develop plans to tackle air pollution by the end of 2018 – The Government expects local authorities will make their plans public once they are completed and several local authorities have already conducted public consultations and engagement on their plans.