Air Pollution: Death
(asked on 19th April 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many attributable deaths there were from fine particulate matter, PM2.5, were there in (a) East Midlands, (b) East of England, (c) Greater London, (d) North East, (e) North West, (f) South East, (g) South West, (h) West Midlands, (i) Yorkshire and the Humber, and (j) England in each year since 2018 using COMEAP's 2022 methodology.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The information is not held in the format requested. The following table shows the fraction of mortality attributable to particulate air pollution, measured as fine particulate matter, PM2.5 for 2018 to 2021, in each region as a percentage.
Region | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
East Midlands | 6.7 | 7.4 | 5.2 | 5.6 |
East of England | 7.6 | 7.6 | 5.8 | 5.5 |
Greater London | 9.0 | 8.8 | 7.1 | 6.5 |
North East | 5.2 | 4.9 | 4.0 | 4.8 |
North West | 5.9 | 6.2 | 5.0 | 5.3 |
South East | 7.7 | 7.2 | 6.0 | 5.4 |
South West | 6.1 | 5.9 | 5.2 | 5.1 |
West Midlands | 6.8 | 7.3 | 5.4 | 5.5 |
Yorkshire and the Humber | 6.1 | 6.6 | 5.0 | 5.0 |
England | 7.1 | 7.1 | 5.6 | 5.5 |
Note:
- The numbers of attributable deaths are not calculated, the provided values represent the percentage of annual deaths from all causes in those aged 30 and older.
- Estimates are currently available until 2021.