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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the GAP Clean Air Day 2020 Grant.

Clean Air Day is the UK’s largest public engagement campaign on air quality, and Defra funding provided to Global Action Plan in 2020 supported it to take a range of action to engage the public and stakeholders on air quality. Key successes included:

- #CleanAirDay trending on Twitter;

- 200 Clean Air Day events;

- the mobilisation of 270 supporter organisations, and;

- 1181 news and broadcast items.